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When the new year begins, so too begins our next legislative session in the Illinois General Assembly. Before the 2024 session kicks off, it is a critical time for me

A lawsuit dating back to August 2019 regarding an incident at a CSL plasma collection site in Rockford was recently settled by the company and the Illinois Attorney Generals office.

On Dec. 1, Kankakee County law enforcement agencies, fire departments and EMS personnel began transitioning to encrypted communications. This change means within a year, digital communications currently heard over the

"These immigrants come over here, they've been rapin' people. They've been breaking into homes. They're like savages as well."

Illinois NAACP President Teresa Haley apologized after likening migrants to "savages," rapists and burglars.

The naming of the next superintendent of Kankakee School District 111 is most likely imminent. A closed-session special meeting was held Wednesday afternoon in which the Kankakee School Board was

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias awarded $1.4 million to equip 2,713 public school libraries, benefiting 1.2 million students.

Xandria Harris’ motion for pretrial release was denied Wednesday by Kankakee County Circuit Judge Kathy-Bradshaw-Elliott, who said, “The state has proven by clear and convincing evidence that Xandria Harris poses

Advance Illinois President Robin Steans is calling attention to the way she feels things aren’t adding up for all students in the state’s education system.

Property values within Kankakee will reach an all-time high this year as current equalized assessed valuation placed property values at $294.7 million. The figure released this month is an estimate,