Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

Gas prices are on the rise. Triple-A says the average cost for a gallon of regular no-lead gas has broken the four-dollar level once again state-wide. A gallon of gas is running 4.02 across the Land o...

The Kankakee County Fair kicks off today at the fairgrounds just south of Kankakee. Jennifer Bauer is the officer manager for the fair and she has a rundown of today's events The fair runs through Sun...

Kankakee County Sheriff's Police are looking for information about a burglary earlier this week. Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Trent Bukowski has our Crimestoppers Tip of the Week Tips to Crimesto...

The Illinois Department of Transportation will be setting new beams on the Armour Road bridge today. Authorities say delivery of the beams and work being done in the construction zone may slow traffic...

Kankakee County has now joined some 30 counties in Illinois where West Nile Virus has been detected this summer. The Kankakee County Health Department reports groups of mosquitoes collected from a tra...

A 54 year old man was found dead following a garage fire over the weekend in Watseka. Kevin Kaufman had been staying in the garage of friends at a home in the 300 block of W. North Street when the fir...

It's time for National Night Out. Bradley Deputy Police Chief Adrian Provost says it's the 40th year for the event, and the 16th to be held locally at the Perry Farm National Night Out runs from three...

The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced a multi-year plan that includes some 54-million-dollars in improvements to Route 53 in Will County. 40th District State Senator Patrick Joyce sa...

There's more than a Billion dollars up for grabs tonight in the mega=millions multi-state lottery drawing. There's been no winner of the jackpot since April and officials say the estimated jackpot sta...

The woman accused of abducting four juvenile Manteno girls at knife point from a Manteno park on July 10th before releasing them unharmed later that same day was in Kankakee County Court today. 47 yea...