Channahon, IL Home for Rent

Archeologists believe that people have called Channahon home for more than 3,000 years, and its location is central to why that’s the case. Situated where the Des Plaines, DuPage and Kankakee Rivers converge to form the Illinois River, the village’s name comes from the Potawatomi word meaning “meeting of the waters.”

Signs of Channahon's past are everywhere, from Channahon State Park to the Briscoe Mounds to the Illinois and Michigan Canal that was key to the area’s 19th-century growth. But Channahon is also moving into the future. Though Il ...