title: Aroma Township, Kankakee County, Illinois
text: # Aroma Township, Kankakee County, Illinois
  
  Aroma Township is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,157 and it contained 2,203 housing units.
  
  ## Geography
  
  According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 37.98 square miles (98.4 $km^2),$ of which 37.06 square miles (96.0 $km^2)$ (or 97.58%) is land and 0.92 square miles (2.4 $km^2)$ (or 2.42%) is water.
  
  Aroma township includes the Iroquois Woods Nature Preserve and Strasma Park.
  
  ### Cities, towns, villages
  
  * Aroma Park (vast majority)
  * Kankakee (east edge)
  * Sammons Point (east edge)
  * Sun River Terrace (southwest quarter)
  
  ### Adjacent townships
  
  * Ganeer Township (northeast)
  * St. Anne Township (southeast)
  * Papineau Township, Iroquois County (south)
  * Chebanse Township, Iroquois County (southwest)
  * Kankakee Township (west)
  * Otto Township (west)
  * Bourbonnais Township (northwest)
  
  ### Cemeteries
  
  The township contains these six cemeteries: Aroma Park, B'nai Israel, Bebe Family, Kankakee Memorial Gardens, Flower, and Leggtown.
  
  ### Major highways
  
  * Illinois Route 1
  * Illinois Route 17
  
  ## Government
  
  The township is governed by an elected Town Board of a Supervisor and four Trustees. The Township also has an elected Assessor, Clerk, Highway Commissioner and Supervisor. The Township Office is located at 3955 South 3250 East Road, St. Anne, IL 60964.
  
  ## Political districts
  
  * Illinois's 11th congressional district
  * State House District 79
  * State Senate District 40
  
  ## School districts
  
  * Kankakee School District 111
  * Momence Community Unit School District 1
  