Kankakee Illinois can be one of the hardest places on Earth to find a good paying jobs. Kankakee Illinois is a small city located about one hour south of the great city of Chicago. The city population is about 30,000 people. At one time "1960-1970" Kankakee Illinois was a thriving city with big businesses in town such as Roper Corporation, Heinz Foods and Kraft just to name a few. You could literally take a drive through the heart of Kankakee and just off Court Street see all the big beautiful Victorian homes, kids playing and a thriving local economy. It seemed like Kankakee Illinois could be one of the best places to live. So what happened? Well, you really can't blame just one factor, but this city had a recipe for economic disaster brewing. Take out 3 of the biggest employers in the area a government that showed to passion to bring in business and failed attempts to monitor the quality and the quantity of rental homes in the city.
What is Kankakee today? Well let's just say the crime rate per capa is one of the highest in the country and Kankakee was voted a few years ago as one of the worst places to live!! That's a big swing from 30 years ago. When you have a city filled with people who want to work, but some of the highest paying jobs are $11.00 an hour it creates an environment of poverty.
Kankakee Area Jobs is here to help. What we have found is that there are some GOOD jobs starting to come back around in the Kankakee area. The problem lately is it was impossible to find the job openings. That's why we have created www.KankakeeAreaJobs.com . What the website does is scrapes thousands of job openings and finds all the jobs open in the Kankakee area and displays them onto one website. It will not take long to see that some of the biggest employers in the Kankakee area are hiring now. Kankakee Area Jobs has averaged over 800 open jobs a month. We hope we can continue to find good jobs for the great people of Kankakee Illinois and help bring back Kankakee to its glory years one job at a time!