Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 27, 2026.
Bourbonnais, Illinois, in Kankakee County, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Illinois the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Illinois State Police is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Bourbonnais is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Bourbonnais public records, Kankakee County criminal records, Bourbonnais arrest records, Bourbonnais warrants, Bourbonnais inmate search, Bourbonnais court records, Illinois arrest records and Illinois inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Circuit Court of Kankakee County
A criminal case from Bourbonnais is filed in the Circuit Court of Kankakee County, and the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Kankakee County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at illinoiscourts.gov/courts-directory/24/Kankakee-County-Courthouse-/... (page title: Kankakee County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts), phone (815) 937-2915, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Kankakee County.
Illinois has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Illinois Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Illinois is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act, through the Illinois State Police. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
To see your own record, the route is a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at isp.illinois.gov/BureauOfIdentification/MyRecord.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Bourbonnais
The Kankakee County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Bourbonnais (filed by the FBI as Bourbonnais Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Bourbonnais: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Kankakee County: Kankakee Community College (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the six agencies in Kankakee County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 841 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Bourbonnais arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Bourbonnais in 2025
The agency that reports for Bourbonnais had 30 violent and 90 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The State's Attorney for Kankakee County
The State's Attorney decides which arrests in Kankakee County become charges and files them in the Circuit Court of Kankakee County; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at k3county.net/m/directory/department?did=41 (page title: Staff Directory, State's Attorney Office), phone 815-936-5801, 450 E Court Street 3rd Floor Kankakee, IL 60901, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Bourbonnais
Registered sex offenders living in Bourbonnais are listed on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry, run by the Illinois State Police at illinois.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Kankakee County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension, and it may charge copying only after the first 50 pages.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Kankakee County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Kankakee County and Illinois. These criminal records pages from its Kankakee County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Most Wanted (kankakeecountysheriff.com)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Bourbonnais?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Illinois State Police: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
Can I search Bourbonnais criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at illinoiscourts.gov (page title: Kankakee County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Kankakee County.
How do I get my own Illinois criminal history?
Through a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Who prosecutes crimes in Bourbonnais?
The State's Attorney, reached at 815-936-5801, which files its cases in the Circuit Court of Kankakee County.
Is this the official Bourbonnais website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.