Kenney, IL

Kenney is a village in DeWitt County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 311 residents. Kenney was named for its founder, Moses Kenney. Kenney was the first community in the nation to achieve one hundred percent participation in the V-Home campaign. Annually, the village holds the Kenney Fall Festival on the weekend after Labor Day, to celebrate the founding of the village by Moses Kenney. The through line in Kenney is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Kenney makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. This distinction came in November 1942 and won Kenney national attention.