Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

No comment yet today from City police on a couple alleged shooting incidents over the weekend. We're told shots were fired in the 900 block of south Wildwood Sunday. A car may have been damaged but no...

Congressman Adam Kinzinger was on ABC's This Week Sunday morning and said that as a member of the house special select committee investigating January 6 th that he we would welcome testimony from anyo...

Applications are open for the second round of state broadband grants. 40th District State Senator Patrick Joyce urges local organizations to apply for the grant Applications need to be in to the state...

The City of Kankakee got some 15-million-dollars from the Feds through the American Rescue Plan Act and Kankakee Mayor Chris Curtis says they want to hear from city residents how the windfall should b...

Kankakee City Fire was called out to a truck fire on the Interstate about 11 Saturday night. Reports say the truck and trailer fire on the southbound side of the interstate near the 309 mile marker fo...

Kankakee City Fire Department personnel were called to a small home in a fire in the 500 block of Union about 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Firefighters say the fire was mostly contained to the content...

Nobody was hurt in an early morning shooting in Kankakee today. It was just before 2 this morning city police were called to the 200 block of East Birch Street for a report of shots fired. Upon arriva...

An area staple of the fall is back this year. The Manteno Oktoberfest returns for its 23 anniversary after missing last year because of covid 19 restrictions. The Manteno Chamber of Commerce says in a...

Two Paxton men have been arrested on sex charges in separate incidents. Paxton police arrested 18 year old Caden L. Miller on a charge of criminal sexual assault and disorderly conduct over the weeken...

The Iroquois County Public Health Department has a COVID-19 Pfizer vaccination clinic going on this afternoon. The clinic runs from four til six at Iroquois Memorial Hospital and is available by appoi...