Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

A member of the Wilmington Fire Protection District was killed over the weekend in a single vehicle motorcycle accident. Illinois State police say firefighter paramedic David Pollack died from injurie...

Unemployment continues to climb in Kankakee County. The Illinois Department of Employment Security puts the number for August at 6.8 percent. That's up from July's 6.1 percent. A year ago, the jobless...

19 year old Gina Galey, A.K.A. Gina Miles of Paxton is coming home. Miles was last spring's winner on the NBC television show The Voice. She returns to perform two shows next month at Paxton's Cadilla...

The Bradley Elementary School Board has a budget in place for the fiscal 2024 school year. The balanced budget was approved at this month's school board meeting. The 25.2 million dollar budget is up f...

Officials are looking for a Mokena man who hasn't been seen since his vehicle crashed into a tree and a building on Rt. 52 in Manhattan Tuesday night. His family says they last heard from 28 year old ...

Braidwood police are giving the all clear today after two children were approached yesterday afternoon walking home from school by an older man driving a pickup truck near Cermak and English. The man ...

A woman who was reported missing on August 10th of this year was found dead this morning in a shed in the 400 block of south 4th Ave. in Kankakee. In a press release, the Kankakee County Coroner's Off...

Chalk up another arrest for the Fairbury police departments going online child sex stings. Fairbury police arrested a Farmington man yesterday when he allegedly traveled to Fairbury to meet up with wh...

Kankakee police pulled over a vehicle last night near East Eagle and South Dearborn for failing to signal. While speaking to the driver, identified as 25 year old Hannah Crabtree of Bourbonnais, the o...

A Milford man was killed in a single vehicle accident Friday night in rural Milford. According to Iroquois County Sheriff's police 24 year old Tyler Fanning was eastbound on 1050 North near 2340 East ...