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Gas prices continue to surge in Illinois. Triple A reports it currently costs around five-dollars and 53-cents for a gallon of regular gas. Up another eight cents overnight. That is a record in Illino...

The Kankakee County Sheriff's office has announced an arrest in a nearly six-year-old triple murder. Reports say 44-year-old Dante D. Dockett of Chicago was arrested for the October 2016 murders of 56...

After a two-year hiatus, the Strawberry Jazz Festival returned over the weekend. Bonnie Brewer is a member of the Community Arts Council which hosted the event and she says it was a big success The fe...

It's starting to sound like a broken record, but gas prices are at all-time highs in the state of Illinois again today. Triple-A says the average cost for a gallon of regular no-lead in the Land of Li...

Iroquois County Coroner Bill Cheatum has released the official cause of death for a 32-year-old Hoopeston man who died while in custody in the Iroquois County Jail last month. In a press release, Chea...

Illinois State Police report a Manteno man is dead following a traffic crash in Chicago Thursday night. Troopers say the unidentified 50-year-old man was driving his car on the shoulder of I-57 near 1...

The average cost for a gallon of regular no-lead gas is up another nickel across the State of Illinois. Triple-A says gas is averaging 5.31 in the Land of Lincoln, up from yesterday's average of 5.26 ...

The new City of Kankakee vehicle stickers go on sale tomorrow at City Hall. Kankakee Mayor Chris Curtis The cost for the sticker doubles after July first. Also after the first you could be assessed a ...

The Kankakee Municipal Band Summer Concert Series begins tonight at Bird Park. Voneda Denault is the president of the Municipal Band and she tells us about tonight's concert

The Bourbonnais Friendship Festival is less than a month away, and it's time to start making plans for the event. This year's fest runs June 22nd through the 26th with this year's theme "Unplug, Conne...