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Manteno is a village in northern Kankakee County, Illinois, and part of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Manteno was named after Manteno (also spelled Mawteno), a daughter of Francois Bourbonnais Jr. and his Potawatomi wife; her name may be an anglicization of manito or manitou, a Potawatomi word for "spirit."

As a woman of Potawatomi descent, Mawteno was granted a section of land near Soldier Creek under the Treaty of Tippecanoe of 1832, land that is now part of Kankakee County.

Manteno Township was created on March 12, 1855, out of the eastern half of Rockville Township, and the village itself was incorporated in 1869.

Manteno was once home to a significant state psychiatric hospital whose presence shaped the village's development and community structure for much of the 20th century.

Manteno's population exploded with suburban growth at the end of the 20th century, rising from 3,760 people in 1990 to 6,494 in 2000 and 9,204 in 2010.

Manteno had 9,210 residents at the 2020 census, holding almost exactly steady from 2010 after its decades of rapid growth.

Census Bureau QuickFacts counts about 3,761 households in Manteno (2020-2024), at about 2.39 people per household.

QuickFacts puts Manteno's median household income at $97,634 (2020-2024), notably high for the Kankakee region, with about 75.6% of homes owner-occupied.

Manteno covers about 5.4 square miles and is bordered to the south by the village of Bourbonnais.