Hoodwinked, fooled, deceived, misled, bamboozled. Those are just a few words to describe what a teenager allegedly did to a community journalist with 40 years of experience. In the small town of ...

Kankakee School District 111 officials are waiting for the weather to stabilize before shutting off the second boiler at Lincoln Cultural Center so that the equipment ...

After getting off the ground this year, Let’s Ketchup has met its first big fundraising goal and donated $7,000 to cancel a portion of the school lunch debt in Bourbonnais ...

Yes, there are bigger issues to deal with in the days after the not-so-great debate, but I’m left with one nagging question that I cannot seem to shake: ...

Large fuel tanks await placement as exterior walls begin to take shape at the Ricky Rockets Fuel Center along East Court Street at the Interstate 57 interchange on Wednesday.

In this week's Heard on the Street: Golden Brew & Creamery offers sweet treats in Beecher; Kankakee Valley Park District is selling surplus softballs; Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow ...

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” This metaphor encapsulates how our beginnings — our families, our environments — can profoundly influence our perception of what’s possible ...

The U.S. House approved a series of investments in late February from the pending 2024 federal budget and the 441,000-square-foot Ken Hayes Industrial Park along East North Street in the ...

House Bill 3814 amends the Illinois School Code by removing a conflict that students in 4-H and Future Farmers of America faced when it came to attending career-related events during ...

Rishard D. Blakemore, of Kankakee, was charged by the Kankakee County State’s Attorney’s Office with five retail thefts totaling more than $18,000 in 2022 from a Bradley business.

The recent incidents of violent crime are unfortunate. However, the gun shots and fatalities were not unanticipated. There have been a slew of murders and several reports of gun shots ...

The familiar sights and sounds are still there: the scuffed and faded floor tiles, the relentless beige-on-beige color scheme, the toddlers' clothes and refrigerators and pretty much everything in ...