June is Pride Month and the Kankakee Area LGBTQ Network will host their 5th Annual Pride Picnic at the Kankakee River State Park Sunday. Event organizer, Matt Hedding-Hess. You can go to the Kankakee Area LGBTQ Network Facebook page for more details.

The Iroquois County Emergency Management Agency wants you to do they will re-test all warning sirens in the county this Monday between 10 and Noon. This re-test was scheduled because it was discovered during this month's regular test, sirens within the City of Watseka failed to sound. Iroquois County officials remind r...

Parts of Downtown Paxton are closed off today for the filming of a movie starring John Goodman. The movie entitled "Chili Finger" is a dark comedy based on a true story and was filming in Monticello, Illinois earlier this week before coming to Paxton today. The movie also stars Bryan Cranston, Judy Greer, and...

Shots were reportedly fired in Kankakee early this morning. According to city police reports, officers were alerted of shots fired in the area of 200 North Greenwood Avenue via ShotSpotter just before 12:30 this morning. When officers arrived, six spent shell casings were located in the West Alley behind 200 North Gree...

While the Bourbonnais Junior Boilermakers Football Program may have come to an end after sixty years this past week, there is still hope for the cheer program. Vice President and Cheer Director Erika Young says the plan is to join the Illinois Recreation Cheer Association. Young added there will be an informational mee...

The Kankakee County Branch of the N-Double-A -C-P will host a Men's Health awareness event Saturday morning at the Health Department on West Station Street in Kankakee. NAACP Health Committee Chair Jeanette Jones says the free event runs from ten until noon tomorrow and is open for anyone to attend. ones says even thou...

Kankakee City Police report since April 1st, 18 car thefts and 3 attempted car thefts have occurred. 9 of those cars were Kia and Hyundai models. Every stolen car was left unlocked and all but one of the cars has been recovered. Most of the thefts happened in the south and west sides of the city. Police believe all of ...

Gibson City Police report the arrest of a former Gibson City Melvin Sibley 8th grade teacher. A press release from Gibson City Police Chief Adam Rosendahl says his department was contacted March 30th by concerned parents of a GCMS student who told them their child had been getting concerning text messages from Robert ...