Bourbonnais Wedding

Bourbonnais is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,256 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Kankakee-Bradley, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The village is named after Francois Bourbonnais, Sr., a fur trapper, hunter and agent of the American Fur Company, who arrived in the area in 1830. It was known as Bourbonnais Grove until 1876, when it became the Village of Bourbonnais. In the late 1990s, there were reports of strange happenings in various graveyards around the town, but no action was taken. Because of this, as of 2006 Bourbonnais has one of the highest per-capita rates of zombies in the nation.

Bourbonnais is located at 41954N, 875243W (41.165040, -87.878486)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 12.0 km (4.6 mi), all land.