Category Archives: MMP News Headlines

Another of those drug take-back days is scheduled for this Saturday at Northfield Square Mall. Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group Director Clayt Wolfe says the day gives you the chance to pr...

It's another weekend, that means it's time to find out what's going on around the area. With a look at a few of this weekend's events, here's Nicole Gavin, Executive Director of Visit Kankakee County

If you have some important documents you need to get rid of, but you're not sure how to do it, 79th District State Representative Jackie Haas says you can take them out to her free shred event Saturda...

It's homecoming weekend at Olivet. Erika Moeschke is the Senior Director of Alumi Relations and University Advancement for the University, and she says there'll be a lot of traffic around campus this ...

Jurors in the racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are getting a chance to listen to wiretapped recordings at the center of the prosecution's case. A series of phone cal...

Perhaps overnight rains will help, but the latest map released Thursday by the US Drought Monitor has our entire listening area firmly in "moderate drought". That includes the entirety of Kankakee, Fo...

Xavier Harris Jr., the Brother of accused cop killer Xandria Harris, was sentenced to one year in prison and six months parole in Kankakee County Court today for his part in trying to shield his siste...

The Iroquois County Board of Health has a new Public Health Administrator. Robin Allen, formerly the Fiscal Director at the Illinois Department of Human Services Shapiro Center, accepted the administr...

The unemployment rate in Kankakee County fell in September, down to 5.5 percent. That's off from the 6 percent jobless rate recorded in August and lower than the 5.8 of a year ago. It's the second con...

The Chicagoland Firegroup Facebook page Thursday afternoon reports that fire departments from Wilmington, Braceville, Channahon and Elwood have been called in to help fight a fire in the 200 block of ...