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is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,200 at the 2006 census. It is part of the Kankakee–Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Chicago–Naperville–Michigan City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area.
Manteno was named after a half-Indian maiden, daughter of Francois Bourbonnais, Jr., one of the region's earliest settlers. A Potawatomi Indian name, it is a possible anglicization of manito or manitou, a Potawatomi word for spirit.
Oliver W. Barnard, an early settler in this area, spells her name
in one of his books. Other 19th century books spell it
) was given a section of land, now part of northeastern Kankakee County, by the treaty of Camp Tippecanoe of December 20th, 1832.
Both Kankakee and Iroquois counties were part of Will County, Illinois before the State Legislature granted a plea of Kankakee's citizens and permitted them to incorporate in 1853.
The present Township of Manteno was then the east half of the Township of Rockville. On March 12th, 1855, the town's petition that the area become the Township of Manteno was granted by the county's Board of Supervisors.