We're still waiting for more information on what the Monee Police Department says is a shooting investigation. The only details released so far came in a police social media post last night that said the shooting happened yesterday in the 25,600 block of Jonquil and that there was no danger to the general public. We'l...

The Indiana Northwest Regional SWAT team was called to a home in Cedar Lake today. Swat was part of a large police presence in the 7600 block of Lake Shore Drive to assist Indiana Department of Child Services. The agency had a court order in connection to an ongoing investigation and the welfare of children in the h...

A Paxton man is on his way to prison for the next three years. 41 year old Alan Mahon had pleaded guilty in Grundy county Court to aggravated Dui. In April of last year Mahon was pulled over for improper lane usage and driving drunk doing 35 miles an hour over the limit. Mahon has five prior DUI's.

At this week's Bradley Village Board meeting, trustees approved a surplus budget for the fiscal year 2025 of 21 8 million dollars. Expenses are anticipated to come in at 20.4 million. 250,000 dollars of what's left over will go into cash reserves, but much of the rest will most likely go to various infrastructure pro...

The Illinois State Police department is warning of a phone scam. Over the past two days, they have received several phone calls from individuals reporting a person claiming to be an ISP investigator telling them their identity has been stolen. Deputies say the department will never call and request personal or financi...

Firefighters were called to a business in the 2700 block of East Division in Diamond Thursday morning. Wilmington Fire saying a Taco Bell KFC combo store had a small fire in the wall of the restaurant, just inside the entrance. The fire was quickly extinguished. The building was filled with light smoke for a time and ...

Kankakee's employment rate fell in March to 6.4 percent. That's down from 6.8 in February but still slightly higher than the 6.2 in March of last year. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports that Kankakee County added five hundred jobs over the last year. Rockford has the highest jobless rate in the s...

A Coal City man who had multiple arrests for driving under the influence when arrested again for DUI in 2023 has pleaded guilty aggravated DUI and has been sentenced to seven years in prison. However, if 68 year old Roberto Rodriquez passes an alternative treatment Grundy County court program, he goes free. If not, R...

A Coal City man who had multiple arrests for driving under the influence when arrested again for DUI in 2023 has pleaded guilty aggravated DUI and has been sentenced to seven years in prison. However, if 68 year old Roberto Rodriquez passes an alternative treatment Grundy County court program, he goes free. If not, R...

We have the name now of that former Olivet student, accused of making threatening statements against the University earlier this week. In a Facebook post, Bourbonnais Police say Urbana Police arrested Boston Brooks Monday for allegedly making a terrorist threat against ONU. Brooks had a bond hearing in Urbana Court Wed...