Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

What started off as a domestic dispute in the 700 block of Cherokee Drive in Bourbonnais appears to have turned deadly. Bourbonnais Police Chief Jim Phelps would only confirm his department was called...

Bond has been set at a million dollars for a Kankakee man charged in a shots fired incident on June 13th. 18 year old Lamir C. Harris was arrested last Saturday after allegedly firing a gun at another...

A Mechanicsburg, Illinois man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Federal Court in Peoria to a series of robberies last year that included the Bank of Pontiac branch in Odell. 55 year old John...

A Livingston County man has been sentenced to 17 and a half years in federal prison on child pornography charges. 23 year old Dakota Flint of Campus, Illinois pleaded guilty to possession of child por...

Emergency personnel are on scene of a structure fire in rural Manteno. Kankakee County Sheriff's police report the fire in the 9700 North block of 4000 East Rd (northeast of Manteno). You're advised t...

Kankakee County Sheriff's police say one person was shot in the abdomen about 9 last night in the Pembroke Township area. Deputies were able to locate a vehicle believed involved in the shooting and d...

Former Kankakee 2nd ward Alderman James Stokes Jr. has passed away. Besides his service to the city on the city council, Stokes also was a Kankakee fire fighter for 40 years. The cause of death was no...

There's apparently some bad heroin going around Will County. There have been multiple drug overdose deaths reported in Will County the past couple of weeks and yesterday they had 4. Once in Crete Town...

There are no details yet on what we are told was a shooting this afternoon in Kankakee in the 600 block of W. Merchant Street that may have ended with three people dead. City police have not yet comme...

Kankakee's unemployment rate for May was up slightly over last year. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports Kankakee jobless rate was 6.2 percent for May, that's up from the 6 percent ...