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Fire caused about five-thousand-dollars worth of damage to an apartment building in Kankakee over the weekend. Kankakee City Fire Department personnel were called out to the fire in the 700 block of N...

Kankakee City Council passed a resolution Tuesday night to accept an engineering proposal from Piggush Engineering for the North Schuyler Avenue Streetscape. City engineer Neil Piggush says the city w...

The City of Kankakee has received a nearly one million dollar grant from the State of Illinois for the future west riverwalk project. Mayor Chris Curtis announced the news at Tuesday's city council me...

Kankakee Trinity Academy is changing its name. In an email sent out to staff and parents Friday by Superintendent Jeff Wood, the new name approved by the board of directors is Hope Christian Academy. ...

Illinois' unemployment rate is up slightly. The state Department of Employment Security says the state's jobless rate in December increased point-two-percent from November to four-point-six-percent. N...

We are under that Extreme Cold Warning until noon today. The National Weather Service says we can expect dangerously cold windchills between 30 and 40 below, which can cause frostbite to exposed skin ...

Another case of Legionnaires' disease has been diagnosed at Shapiro. State officials confirmed the second case of the disease on Tuesday. This makes the second case of the disease to be diagnosed at t...

There's still plenty to do around Kankakee County this weekend. With a look at a few of the events, here's Angelina Gear, Executive Director of Visit Kankakee County

The Kankakee County Emergency Management Agency wants to remind were warming centers are located throughout the area during this extreme cold warning were about to face. They include the Pembroke Town...

Pets and other animals are just as vulnerable to these extremely cold temperatures as we are. Doctor Jen Kempke from the Bradley Animal Hospital says your pets should not be outdoors for long periods ...