A 46-year-old Bonfield man is dead following an all-terrain vehicle crash over the weekend. Kankakee County Sheriff's Police say Merle D. Tholen Junior and his son were riding the ATV in a field behind their Bonfield home Saturday night when the ATV rolled, throwing Tholen from the vehicle. Both Tholen and his son were...

Kankakee County Coroner Bob Gessner has ruled homicide in the case of a man shot to death on the lawn of a home in Kankakee Sunday afternoon. Gessner says 40-year-old Randal D. Young of Kankakee died of a gunshot wound to his head. Kankakee City Police say they were called to a home in the 11-hundred block of East Merc...

53rd District State Senator Chris Balkema is giving an update on the tornado that tore through Streator earlier this month. Senator Balkema said it's a miracle nobody was killed Balkema's 53rd District includes a good portion of our southern and western listening area

Governor JB Pritzker was in Gilman this morning, cutting the ribbon on an expansion at the Incobrasa soybean processing plant. Kerry Fogarty is the quality control manager for Incobrasa Incobrasa makes soybean oil and biodiesel products at its plant in Gilman.