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As the threat of snow emerges in the forecast for the Chicago area, some parts of the region could actually see strong-to-severe thunderstorms Tuesday...

The Kankakee Police Department is partnering with the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Police and more than 200 local law enforcement agencies to step up enforcement efforts across

This past fiscal year Kankakee County Treasurer Nick Africano estimated the county made close to $600,000 off interests — most of that was derived from American Rescue Plan Act funds

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) – Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois Department of Employment Security released February data that indicates a rise in nonfarm jobs in several metropolitan areas since the previous year. They found that nonfarm jobs went up in 11 metropolitan areas and decreased in three since Feb. 2023. The […]

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Unemployment rates have slightly increased across all 14 metropolitan areas in Illinois since last February, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois Department of Employment Security. The annual unemployment change was the highest in the Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights metropolitan area, which includes Evanston, rising from a 4.3% unemployment...

James Elwin McCray, music professor and administrator, choral conductor, and composer, died March 3 at his home in Fort Collins, Colorado, following a period of declining health. He was born February 27, 1938, in Kankakee, Illinois, and received degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He earned a Ph.D. degree in music from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

The home credited as one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Prairie School designs, the 1900 Warren Hickox House, has hit the market recently in Kankakee, Illinois, for a listing price of $779,000. Realtor.com was early to report news of the home’s listing, which represents the first time the home...

Timothy Carter is the Illinois man who is accused of stabbing a teenage Wal-Mart employee, Jason Jenkins, to death inside the store.

The Warren Hickox House in Kankakee, Illinois with four bedrooms and two bayed alcoves just listed for the first time since 1976.