Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

Bond has been set at half a million dollars for a Mississippi man in connection with the weekend shooting outside a bar in Bourbonnais. The 18 year old victim was struck multiple times with gunfire in...

The Kankakee County Covid 19 positivity rate is falling slowly. As of Friday it stood at 6.1 percent and is down from the 8 percent recorded on September 14th. In Will County, their positivity rate ha...

The Kankakee County unemployment rate for August increased from July, but is still way below the mid-pandemic rate of last year. The Illinois Department of Employment Security pegs the August jobless ...

A man reported a stolen gun Sunday morning from his car in the 500 block of West Henry Street in Kankakee. The victim says they also got away with 800 dollars in cash from the center console and a Gal...

A man says he was jumped by ten others with guns about 4am Saturday morning in the 200 block of North Greenwood. The victim tells police they struck him in the head and kicked him before taking his sh...

City police were called to the 300 block of North Harrison early Monday morning for a report of shots fired. Police say upon arrival they located an unspecified number of shell casings, but there were...

Shots were fired Saturday in the 100 block of North Myrtle in Kankakee. A witness told officers he saw a man in his 20s, wearing all black, standing in a nearby empty lot shooting towards the southwes...

We have a few more details now on the early Sunday morning shooting in Bourbonnais that sent a local man to the hospital. Bourbonnais Police Chief Jim Phelps says the shooting happened about two Sunda...

The Alzheimer's Associations Walk to End Alzheimers was held over the weekend at KCC. Kayli LaVelle was the walk manager this year and she said this year's walk passed all expectations surpassing this...

After taking last year off because of COVID, the annual Oktoberfest returned to Manteno over the weekend. Mayor Tim Nugent said the Village really put itself on display over the weekend and as soon as...