Kankakee's employment rate fell in March to 6.4 percent. That's down from 6.8 in February but still slightly higher than the 6.2 in March of last year. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports that Kankakee County added five hundred jobs over the last year. Rockford has the highest jobless rate in the s...

Firefighters were called to a business in the 2700 block of East Division in Diamond Thursday morning. Wilmington Fire saying a Taco Bell KFC combo store had a small fire in the wall of the restaurant, just inside the entrance. The fire was quickly extinguished. The building was filled with light smoke for a time and ...

A Coal City man who had multiple arrests for driving under the influence when arrested again for DUI in 2023 has pleaded guilty aggravated DUI and has been sentenced to seven years in prison. However, if 68 year old Roberto Rodriquez passes an alternative treatment Grundy County court program, he goes free. If not, R...

A Coal City man who had multiple arrests for driving under the influence when arrested again for DUI in 2023 has pleaded guilty aggravated DUI and has been sentenced to seven years in prison. However, if 68 year old Roberto Rodriquez passes an alternative treatment Grundy County court program, he goes free. If not, R...

Wilmington police allegedly dropped off a Venezuelan immigrant in Kankakee, instead of arresting him, after he allegedly tried to get into multiple Wilmington homes. Media reports say the man told a woman in one home at the time that he was an immigrant and needed help that the government was not providing and he has ...