Apartment fire in Kankakee

Kankakee City Fire Department personnel were called to an apartment fire in the 200 block of North 6th Avenue Monday evening. Reports say firefighters were called to the scene just after 7:30 Monday evening for a kitchen fire. Firefighters say the fire started on the stove. Three families were displaced by the blaze, which caused some 20-thousand-dollars worth of damage to the building.