A 44-year-old inmate at the Jerome Combs Detention Center in Kankakee now faces an attempted murder rap after the beating of a Correctional Officer. Michael Christmas is also facing an aggravated battery charge. Christmas...
The Village of Donovan is under a boil order, issued Tuesday, until further notice.
Coal City has a boil order in place, affective for S. Broadway and S. Kankakee, from E. Oak to the railroad.
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China is buying again and it’s especially encouraging for Illinois farmers. For the past two months, China has been buying large amounts of U.S. corn and soybeans.
Jonathan Coppess, a policy analyst with the University of...
The Roff House in Watseka is included among the 2020 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards. Landmarks Illinois announced nine recipients of the Driehaus Foundation awards. The annual awards...
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the popular Christmas Cantata in Iroquois County. The 2020 presentation is called off due to the continuing health concerns. This year’s event would have been the 45th presentation of the...
The Farm Progress Virtual Experience is bringing two top farm shows in the country directly to farmers. Area folks on the farm can reach out, virtually, today (Tues) thru Thursday and experience what they see in-person at these...
The City of Watseka will host a waste collection event this fall. There will be more details announced. Illinois EPA Director John J. Kim announced the agency is resuming Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collections in the fall of...
Illinois State Police have filed emergency rules and extended the time to renew Firearm Owner Identification (FOID) and Concealed Carry Licenses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extension now gives FOID card owners and CCL...
Today marks 19-years since the airplane terror attacks in New Yor, Washington DC. and Pennsylvania. And 19 years later, we still don't poitive identifications for more than 11-hundred of the 2,753 World Trade Center victims...
It is going to be a cold and snowy winter in Illinois according to the 2021 version of the Farmer’s Almanac.The publication is calling it the “Winter of the Great Divide,” calling for cold and snowy in the north, drought in the...
