The Greater Illinois Violence Prevention Coordinating Council of Kankakee will hold a Town Hall meeting Thursday in an effort to lessen violence in Kankakee County. Gloria Kennedy is the Council's Program Manager The Town Hall Meeting starts at five Thursday evening and should be done by seven. It'll be held in the Kan...

Commencement ceremonies were held at both Kankakee Community College and Olivet Nazarene University over the weekend. Keynote speaker for KCC's ceremony was Central High School and KCC grad Fawn Hendershott who is the Executive Director of Uplifted Care in Bourbonnais. Olivet graduated 501 undergraduate and 345 gradu...

Ascension St Mary's Hospital in Kankakee along with Ascension St Joseph in Joliet and others in the network continue to suffer the effect of a cyber-attack last Wednesday May 8th. Ascension says the attack on the network has left doctors unable to access medical records and the attack forced some hospitals to cancel s...

A Livingston County man who was arrested in 2022 after traveling to Fairbury to meet a girl he believed was under the age of 13 for sex, but turned out to be a police officer posing as a teen on line, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to possession child porn and indecent solicitation of ch...

A Rensselaer man riding a motorcycle with no working tail lights and no registration was arrested earlier last week in the 300 block of South Front Street after he was pulled over and the officer recognized 38 year old Ryan Fish as a wanted man. Fish was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant for possession of M...

If you notice a lot more traffic around Olivet this weekend, there's a good chance that's because proud parents are in town for graduation. Mark Mountain is the University's Registrar and he says it's the schools 111th commencement Mountain adds this year's nearly 850 graduates is down a bit, but noted this class start...

Kankakee Community College will hold their Commencement Ceremony tomorrow morning in the George H. Ryan Gymnasium on the College Campus. Kari Nugent is the Vice President for advancement, marketing and public relations for the college KCC's Commencement starts at 10 Saturday morning and if you're not able to attend the...

Kankakee City police were called to 220 Crestlane Drive about 1 this morning for a report of shots fired. Officers report several people were on the scene at the time of the shooting, but none of them saw or heard anything. Police say they did locate two spent 9mm shell casings in the parking lot. Nobody was hurt, no...