It is election day! Kankakee County Clerk Dan Hendrickson says the polls are open and ready for you to cast your ballot The polls will be open until seven tonight. Our election night coverage starts shortly after seven, right here.

Today is April Fool's Day, so be careful what you fall for. While there may be no clear, official origin, references to the first of April as a day of trickery date back all the way to the 14th century. The first recorded April Fools' Day was in France in 1582. It's believed that April 1st was celebrated as New Year...

Attorneys for Michael Madigan are calling for a new trial in his corruption case. The Chicago Tribune reports the former Illinois House speaker's lawyers made the request in a motion filed last Friday. They claim prosecutors failed to prove the Chicago Democrat knew about a scheme by ComEd to pay off his associates a...

It's election day tomorrow, and every day leading up to the election we've been hearing from some of the candidates for major elected office in the County about why they should be the choice for voters. Today we'll be hearing from the two vying to be the mayor of Kankakee. First, Democratic challenger Genevra Walters ...