It’s all about professional excellence, community service and building leadership skills. And Thursday, Dr.Genevra Walters was named the 2019 Athena Award winner. The Kankakee District 111 School Superintendent was recognized at...
A 29-year-old former music teacher at Reed Custer School will spend time in the county hail and have to register as a sex offender. Kevin Macha of Joliet was sentenced on child pornography charges. He pled guilty to possession of...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce that Riverside Healthcare has earned 2019 CHIME HealthCare's Most Wired recognition as a certified level 8. The Most Wired program...
A close 13-12 vote bans the sale of any cannabis sales in un-incorporated Kankakee County. That was the end result of the issue after discussion by the County Board last evening. The rare evening meeting at the Kankakee Public...
Members of the Kankakee city administration received feedback on crime reports and statistics. Reducing crime in Kankakee was talked about (Tuesday night) at a Town Hall meeting being at the Public Safety Building.
The public...
A Champaign man was jailed in Iroquois County after an arrest by District 21 Illinois State Police. 55-year-old Johnny Winston Sr. was arrested Friday for possession and the manufacture/delivery of cannabis. The arrest came along...
Funding a Veterans Assistance Commission (VAC) was one of the challenges for the Vermilion County Board, but the Board (Tuesday) did approve its fiscal year 2020 budget. Chairman Larry Baughn explained the state statute requires...
Iroquois County’s posted-budget for 2020 was given the green light today (Tues) by the County Board. Chairman John Shure says it’s all lookin’ good………..
"The budget has been available for review the last month. There's...
The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) has approved another cultivation center that can grow cannabis for adult-use purposes. The approval is in advance of adult-use cannabis becoming legal on January 1, 2020.
Compass...
Motorists are on alert today (Monday). The NWS says Snow and rain is causing dangerous road conditions. The Chicago and northern Illinois area could see up to six inches of snow. The east-central Illinois areas...
