Brandley Tourism: Dining, Lodging
and Attractions

Dining

The Bradley-Bourbonnais area offers residents and visitors alike a variety of dining options. From fine dining to delicious desserts, this area has it all. For a complete list of dining choices in nearby communities, visit www.visitkankakeecounty.com.

Lodging

Kankakee County offers visitors comfortable hotel accommodations in all of its communities in and closely surrounding the Bradley-Bourbonnais area. For more information on local hotels, please call 1-800-74-RIVER.

Hotels

Country Inn & Suites
380 South Cypress Street
Manteno, IL 60950
1-815-468-2600

Fairfield Inn
1550 State Route 50 North
Bourbonnais, IL 60914
1-815-935-1334
1-800-228-2800
www.marriott.com/chikk
The Fairfield Inn offers non-smoking rooms, an indoor pool, handicapped accessibility and a continental breakfast. The Fairfield Inn also provides cleaning service, cable and movies.

Hampton Inn
60 Ken Hayes Drive
Bourbonnais, IL 60914
(Located off of I-57)
1-815-932-8369
1-800-HAMPTON
The Hampton Inn provides guests with an indoor pool, hot breakfast, high-speed Internet access, a fitness center, cable/movies and Pay-per-view TV. The Hampton Inn also has meeting facilities for up to 30 people.

Hilton Garden Inn & Riverstone Conference Center
455 Riverstone Parkway
Kankakee, IL 60901
1-815-932-4444

Holiday Inn Express
62 Ken Hayes Drive
Bourbonnais, IL 60914
(Located off of I-57)
1-815-932-4411
1-800-HOLIDAY
www.holidayinn.com
Services offered at the Holiday Inn Express include an indoor pool, fitness center, complimentary Express Start breakfast, high-speed Internet access, cable/movies and Pay-per-view. The Holiday Inn Express also offers a conference room for 8-10 people, meeting facilities for up to 125 people, and in-house catering.

Lees Inn
1500 State Route 50 North
Bourbonnais, IL 60914
(Located off of I-57)
1-815-932-8080
www.leesinn.com
Lees Inn provides a Hot Silver Service breakfast, a pool and spa, fitness center, and guest shoppe. Lees Inn also has meeting facilities for 60 people, banquet facilities for 60 people, as well as available in-house catering.

Motel 6
1311 State Route 50 North
Bourbonnais, IL 60914
(Located off of I-57)
815-933-2300
800-466-8356
Motel 6 has the following amenities available: kids stay free, small pets welcome, FREE HBO & ESPN, FREE local phone and FREE morning coffee.

Quality Inn & Suites
800 North Kinzie Avenue
Bradley, IL 60915
(Located off of I-57)
1-815-939-3501
1-800-4CHOICE
www.qualityinn
bradley.com
The Quality Inn & Suites in Bradley offers high-speed Internet, complimentary hot breakfast, indoor pool and hot tub, cable and accessibility for RV/Truck parking. It also has nine meeting rooms with capacities as low as 16 and as high as 450. Quality Inn also offers wedding packages and planning.

Super 8
1390 North Locke Drive
Bradley, IL 60915
(Located off of I-57)
1-815-939-7888
An indoor pool, continental breakfast, and cable TV are offered at the Super 8 in Bradley.

Attractions

There are plenty of interesting things to see throughout the Bradley-Bourbonnais area. From places of history to beautiful art exhibits, it is easy to spend a day out and about in Bradley-Bourbonnais.

Located at the Bourbonnais Historical Society is the historical site of the Letourneau Home and Museum. Built around 1837, the preserved home of George R. Letourneau, the premiere mayor of Bourbonnais, still stands strong. Threatened by demolition at the home’s original location on Route 102 in 1985, the Bourbonnais Grove Historical Society, along with the citizens of Bourbonnais, put forth the strong effort to move it to its present site (Stratford Drive at Route 102). Visitors to the Letourneau home can view original and interesting artifacts from the time when George Letourneau and his family resided there. This historical site offers free admission to the public every first and third Sunday of each month, as well as tours by appointment.

Surround yourself with stars and experience realistic simulations of traveling through space at the Strickler Planetarium at Olivet Nazarene University (Route 45 and University Avenue in Bourbonnais). Built in 1967, the planetarium is made up of a 30-foot dome covered in more than 4,800 projected stars. Admission is a mere $1 per person to experience a fascinating and engaging show.

Looking for something more artistic to view? The Vitreous Matter Glass Studio, situated in Bourbonnais at 1585 Commerce Drive, is open Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Take in glass artist Richard Ryan’s beautiful, bright-colored glass sculptures, or view painter Nuch Tansakul-Ryan’s original oil paintings. Also on exhibit at the studio are imported handcrafted ceramics, jewelry, and textiles from Thailand. Visitors can buy these beautiful works of art or simply view the works on display.

Camp Shaw-waw-nas-see
Services: Camp Shaw-waw-nas-see offers experiential outdoor-based education, character development, therapeutic recreation and adventure-based recreation for people of all ages and abilities. At our facility children of all ages can ride horses, swim in our pool, explore Rock Creek, play basketball, football, soccer or volleyball, make candles, paint with watercolor or interact with our ducks, snakes, chickens, bunnies, or Cookie the pig.

Our interns, students, day and residence campers participate in experiential education activities including team-building, communication and self-evaluation. There is a challenge course, nature and science education and application in our fully stocked nature lab; forest preservation and stewardship on our 110 acres of meadows, prairie and forest; history and social studies on the exact site of the last Pottawatomie settlement in Illinois; and community involvement and agri-business at our farm. We offer all these services in a teaching atmosphere with as many as 10 university-level interns per semester in the fields of Parks and Recreation Management, Therapeutic Recreation and Adventure-Based Recreation Administration.

We serve approximately 5,000 children and adults from the community regardless of ability, providing adaptations to canoe and other recreation equipment. Facilitation in this area is supervised by our director, a 15-year veteran in the field of therapeutic recreation.

Programming: Our clients learn about themselves and their environment, make and sustain positive relationships, engage in physical fitness and age-appropriate learning, improve math, reading, communication and processing skills; and create or improve empathy and self-awareness. They are encouraged and celebrated for who they are in programs such as:

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• Natural Science
• Camping basics
• Forestry and Stewardship
• Expressive Arts and Crafts
• Animal Husbandry
• Gardening
• Sports/Organized Recreation
• Astronomy
• Archery
• Swimming
• Kayaking/Canoeing
• Water safety
• Fishing

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