For the second time in as many hearing dates before the Kankakee Electoral Board, the planned 5th Ward Independent candidate was a no-show at the hearing to debate his election fate

The rising cost of doing business also hits county government, as evidence by the Kankakee County Board approving the budget of $46,999,784 for Fiscal Year 2025

The taxing rate that will determine the 2024 levy for Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School is going down, but taxpayers will still see their bills going up.

A $3.3-million complete rebuild of former The Journey Home property for young men is now known as Liberty Lodge and will be soon be populated by 14 homeless veterans in Kankakee

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The complex features six, first-floor single-bedroom units and eight, second-floor dwellings.

As a young man, James Dygert remembers listening on the radio as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt talked about the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

A Momence man is scheduled to appear in Will County Court on Friday regarding allegedly soliciting a child for sex

On Thursday, Kankakee police arrested Daniel Buhr, of Kankakee, for criminal damage to property for causing several hundred dollars in damages to a Kankakee business earlier in the week

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Photos from a Women of War presentation celebrated Veterans Day weekend. The event took place near the Ray Olley statue in front of A.N. Webber, 2150 U.S. Route 45, Kankakee.