Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

Former Chicago Bear Lineman, Dan Hampton, will be the keynote speaker at the Kankakee Country club tonight for the Denny 2021. The event is a benefit sponsored by the Dennis J. Smith Legacy Foundation...

Several local fire departments are on the scene of a fire in an apartment building in the 700 block of North 5th Avenue in Kankakee. City Fire reports the building is "fully involved" with heavy fire ...

Kankakee County Sheriff's police report a couple of arrests over the weekend. According to reports, officers were called to a home on Arthur Burch Drive Friday afternoon after neighbors said they saw ...

The Kankakee woman serving a life sentence for the 1987 kidnapping and murder of businessman Stephen Small has been given the chance to challenge her sentence after the Illinois Appeals Court granted ...

During this morning's meeting of the Kankakee County Board's Community Services Committee, County Clerk Dan Hendrickson gave the committee an update on how Public Act 102-0015 will impact local electi...

Kankakee area Congresswoman Robin Kelly today introduced a bill to create a federal taskforce to advise the Federal Trade Commission on issues of equity impacting consumers of protected classes. A 201...

An inmate at the Jerome Combs Detention Center in Kankakee was inadvertently released Thursday afternoon because of a bond mix-up. Kankakee County Sheriffs police say 29 year old Ernest S. Cooley of C...

Kankakee City police have yet to comment on reports of shots fired this afternoon in the 400 block of North Schuyler. While no details are available, sources say at least two shots were believed to ha...

Marathon Petroleum officials say today they still do not know how much gasoline was spilled from a pipeline Wednesday afternoon in Iroquois County. A Marathon spokesperson does say in The News Gazette...

We have a few more details now in the incident yesterday afternoon that ended with a car in the Kankakee River. Kankakee City Police report they were called to a home in the 300 block of South May jus...