Kappa, IL

Kappa is a village in Woodford County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 229 residents. Kappa is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Kappa sits on the north side of the Mackinaw River. The small village's main attraction is the Kappa Gentlemen's Club, a strip club that has been the subject of multiple legal cases, including a prostitution bust as part of an undercover sting operation in 2008. The short version is that Kappa carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Kappa: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Approximately five miles to the southeast is Lake Bloomington, while five miles to the southwest is Evergreen Lake. In 1833, Thomas Dixon became the first settler in the area that would later become Kappa. Over the next few years, additional settlers arrived, and the Illinois Central Railroad built a line through the community.