Illinois' unemployment rate is down slightly. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the state's jobless rate fell point-one percentage points to four-point-eight-percent in February. Non-farm payroll jobs were dropped by 65-hundred

Election Day is Tuesday, and every day leading up to the election we'll be hearing from some of the candidates for major elected office in the County about why they should be the choice for voters. Today we'll be hearing from the two men vying to be the mayor of Bourbonnais. Bourbonnais Citizen's Party Candidate Jeff K...

The so-called "ComEd Four" are set to be sentenced this summer. A federal judge didn't set specific dates, but announced yesterday that Anne Pramaggiore, Michael McClain, John Hooker, and Jay Doherty will learn their fate in July. All four were found guilty in 2023 of conspiring to influence and reward form...

Lake County Indiana Sheriff's Police are investigating an early Thursday morning crash near Lowell that took the life of an 18-year-old from Illinois. Reports say the crash happened about three yesterday morning when a pick-up truck went off the road, hit a culvert, went airborne, landed, then rolled, throwing the driv...

There are a pair of shows again this weekend at Strickler Planetarium on the Campus of Olivet Nazarene University. Madeline Shepley is the planetarium director Strickler Planetarium is in front of the Reed Hall of Science on Olivet's Campus in Bourbonnais.

As we head up to the election Tuesday, we're going to take some time hearing from candidates running for some of the major offices in Kankakee County. On Tuesday, voters will elect a new mayor in Manteno and today we hear from the two candidates vying for that position, asking them why they should be Manteno voter's ch...

There's plenty to do around Kankakee County this weekend. With a look at a few of the events, here's Nicole Gavin, Executive Director of Visit Kankakee County

The Powerball jackpot has officially crossed the half-a-billion dollar mark. There was no grand prize winner in last night's drawing, driving the jackpot up to at least 515-million dollars. The cash option on that works out to nearly 243-million, with the next chance to strike it rich coming on Saturday. While it ha...