Kankakee, IL: IC Freight House

Kankakee Railroad Museum

IC used to have their freight house across the tracks from their depot. It looks like they had one made of wood and then replaced it with one made of brick. The brick building is a little different than the designs we have been seeing. Instead of a two story office next to a one-story freight handling area, it looks like they built a one story office on top of one end of the one-story freight handling part.

In the 1939 aerial photo below, the freight house is in the lower-left corner. It appears there were some team tracks north of the freight house.

Kankakee Railroad Museum

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

I wonder what the buildings south of the depot were. That area is a parking lot now. IL-17 already had an overpass in 1939.

The area between the tracks and West Avenue is now just grass, power poles and a row of big bushes along the street.

Update:

Bill Molony posted
Kankakee County Museum Photo Archive
The northbound Green Diamond streamliner pulls out of Kankakee after its 12:51pm arrival from St. Louis. This photo was most likely taken shortly after the train began regular service in May 1936. The large building at right was the IC's freight station, which stood on the corner of Station Street and West Avenue.

Jim Arvites posted
View of a troop train with American soldiers returning from World War I at the Illinois Central depot in Kankakee, Illinois in 1918. The IC station is in the far right center of the picture.
(Kankakee County Museum)Dennis P. Bush The two-story building behind the locomotive was the freighthouse on the NW corner of Station St and West Ave.
Rich Westerman I believe that the dispatcher's office was on the 2nd floor while the freight depot took up the 1st floor and continued north. All gone, now.