What is the geography of Channahon, Illinois?
Its name meaning “Meeting of the Waters” in the language of the area’s original Potawatomi inhabitants, Channahon is located at the confluence of the Des Plaines RiverDes Plaines and Kankakee RiverKankakee rivers, where they form the Illinois River. The Illinois and Michigan Canal (including several locks) runs through most of the village, where it is fed by the water of the DuPage River. Later in the 19th century, a line that eventually came under the control of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe RailroadSanta Fe Railroad was laid through the eastern portions of the township, but no railroad actually passed through the village itself. In the late 1920s, U.S. Highway 6 came through Channahon; Interstates Interstate 8080 and Interstate 5555 followed in the 1960s (although I-80 runs approximately two miles to the north of the village limits).
