A Chicago man pleaded guilty Monday in connection with a December 2023 police chase that began in Rossville and ended in Danville. 25 year old Malik Brown ran from police when they attempted to pull him over for being in possession of a stolen car. The chase ended when Brown's vehicle left the roadway and crashed int...

Tickets are now on sale for this year's annual Historic Riverview Christmas House Walk. Five homes will be featured this year including the B Harley Bradley House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The tour will begin at the Depot in downtown Kankakee and take two to two and a half hours. Advance tickets are 20 for th...

An arrest has been made in connection with the shooting of a Ludlow man at a gas station in Rantoul on October 26th. Police report the 22 year old victim was shot twice, once in the back and once in the arm. The shots came from a passing vehicle. Police say they used a license plate reader camera to identify the sus...

A Channahon man who was arrested in October when a search warrant at his home revealed the makings of a pipe bomb inside, told police he intended to place the pipe bomb in a bowl of candy for children coming to his home on Halloween. Police determined the device did not contain explosives when it was confiscated. Als...

A father and son died Sunday from injuries received in a house fire around 6am in the 800 block of Crystal Lane in Diamond. The Grundy County Coroner's office identifies the victims as 63 year old Charles Bill Tabler Jr. and 26 year old Alex Tabler. The father died at the scene while the son passed away at the hospit...

A domestic disturbance in Monee early Sunday morning ended with a man dying at the hospital. According to Monee police they were called to the 26,100 block of Plum Tree Lane by a woman who met officers outside the home. Inside the home they found a 39 year old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was treat...

An Urbana man was arrested in Paxton over the weekend on child sex charges, part of an ongoing undercover operation targeting online child predators. According to Paxton police, 34 year old Kyle A. Smith began communicating on social media with an undercover officer posing as a teenager in October and arranged for a m...

Kankakee City Fire Department personnel were called to a garage fire in the 600 block of West Jeffery Sunday morning. Reports say the call came in about 10 yesterday morning and when they got there firefighters reportedly found the fire had started outside the attached garage and had spread to the house. Kankakee Fire ...