Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

Hippocrates Medical Clinic and the Kankakee Branch of the N-Double-A-C-P will host a Back to School Health Fair Saturday, at the clinic in the 600 block of East Court Street. Hippocrates Dondi Maricle...

If you're attending classes at Kankakee Community College in the fall, the school has a deal for you. With proof of a covid 19 vaccination and your student ID, they'll give you one free class, a 495 d...

There has been another covid 19 death in our northwest Indiana listening area. Pulaski County reporting its 49 th covid 19 death today as cases tick up in the Hoosier state. Indiana officials reportin...

Kankakee City police were called to the 900 block of North Harrison last night for a man with a gun. When officers arrived they found a group of people in the yards and on the sidewalk. They attempted...

A home in Loda suffered extensive fire damage Wednesday. The one and a half story home in the 200 block of West Jackson Street erupted into flames about 6:30 in the morning. Loda fire officials say wh...

In an effort to slow down the spread of the delta variant of the covid 19 virus, state officials are once again putting into place masking requirements in schools. Governor JB Pritzker announced today...

Kankakee County Sheriff's Police are investigating an apparent homicide in Pembroke Township last night. Police say they were called to the SS Friendly Mart at about 9:20 last night for a report of sh...

A Gardner man has been sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to the 2018 drug induced homicide of a pregnant Braidwood woman. 27 year old Colin West admitted to investigators that he so...

This year's Merchant Street Musicfest was a rousing success. Over 9,000 people attended the two day music extravaganza in downtown Kankakee last weekend. The Daily Journal reports those numbers are do...

It's the first day of this year's Kankakee County Fair. Jen Bauer is the Administrative Manager for the Fair and she has a rundown of today's events The Fair runs through Sunday at the Fairgrounds jus...