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Pending Congressional approval, The Greater Kankakee Airport will see nearly $400,000 in improvements. The airport authority is waiting on Congressional approval of a $42 million appropriation to move two Illinois National Guard...

The 11th Annual Sugar Creek Opera Festival this weekend finds professional artists presenting "Cold Sassy Tree" at the Central High School Auditorium in Clifton. Saturday's performance is at 7:30 pm. Dr. Phil Hayes explains the...

The Vermilion Manor Nursing Home has a new owner today. And as Vermilion County officially gets out of the nursing home business nearly 40 employees of the nursing home at Tilton are losing their jobs. Vermilion County Board...

A Ford County judge rejected a request Thursday to reduce the $2 million bond previously set for Heather Lamie. She's charged with two counts of murder in the 2011 death of a foster child in her care. Four-year-old Kianna...

Grundy County Board chairman Ron Severson has decided to seek appointment to state Representative Pam Roth's 75th District seat in the Illinois House. Roth anounced this last month her resignation due to her husband's job...

Kenneth Laura was formally charged last week with aggravated battery and involuntary manslaughter for the beating death of one of his fellow residents at the Illinois Veterans Home in Manteno. But the 65-year-old will not be...

An autopsy was conducted Thursday on 51-year-old Enrique Serrano of Kankakee, who died Wednesday after a truck he was working on fell on him. The accident happened at Acme Auto Parts, along I-57 in Kankakee. Serrano was working...

It's a cry heard before. Now, it's even louder. And the need is now. Budget concerns for the Emergency Telecommunications Safety Board (ETSB) are at the critical point. What was thought to be a big concern two-three years down...

They're beginning the slow process of cleaning up debris from last month's massive fire at a tire recycling business in Hoopeston. The Illinois EPA is monitoring the cleanup process at J&R Used Tire Service. Fire officials...

PEORIA, Ill. (Aug. 1, 2013) — While many volunteers generously responded to the emergency call for blood donations from the American Red Cross in July, donors of all blood types, especially O negative, A negative and B negative...