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At last night's Kankakee City Council meeting, 7th Ward Alderman Carl Brown read a letter of resignation from fellow ward alderman Fred Tetter. The letter did not mention any reason for the resignatio...

The Kankakee City Council approved a general fund budget for the fiscal year that began in May that is 4 million dollars higher than last year. Total expenditures are pegged at 31-point-3 million doll...

The Kankakee City Council last night gave approval to the operation of a halfway house for recovering drug addicts on property owned by the Catholic Diocese of Joliet in the Marycrest neighborhood des...

A series of dangerous storms moved through the area Saturday afternoon, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a series of tornado warnings for the area. The first two were issued almost simu...

A 26-year-old Kankakee man was injured in a fire in his home in the 11-hundred block of Chicago Place early Saturday morning. Kankakee Fire reports say the fire broke out about two Saturday morning wh...

Manteno Police report the arrests of a pair of men in connection with last week's death of 61-year-old Richard A. Alverson. Alverson was found unconscious in his home Thursday night and was later pron...

June 19th has recently been made a State and Federal Holiday. Theodis Pace, President of the Kankakee County Chapter of the NAACP says "Juneteenth", as it is known, is a celebration of the last Americ...

Just after 10:30 last night, officers say they saw a car traveling down Hickory Street at a high rate of speed and blowing a stop sign. Officers were also told the car had hit another vehicle at the i...

Kankakee City Police report someone damaged a couple of cars in the city Thursday. According to reports, officers were called to the home in the one-thousand block of East History just before 5:30 las...

Illinois State Police report a traffic stop Thursday netted troopers a drug arrest. According to reports, it was about 4 Thursday afternoon a trooper stopped a car on 5000 East Road at 7000 South for ...