Kankakee County has a ballot loaded with contested issues, including local county seats, a state representative race and state's attorney contest.
In Iroquois County, there's just a couple of contested matters. The races...
Election Day has arrived. Polls will be open until 7 pm. Iroquois and area county results will be followed by 94.1 WGFA News beginning just after 7 pm.
A record number of people have already cast early-vote...
Iroquois County motorists traveling thru Watseka will have to deal with a detour beginning Monday. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) announced the Illinois Route 1 / TP & W Railroad crossing on Watseka's...
Two Watseka men face illegal drug charges after they were arrested by Watseka Police Wednesday. Officers responded to a domestic problem in progress at a residence on W. Park Avenue. Initial reports indicated a...
It was all about getting back to the basics, what got them to a Sectional final. That was the message from coach Krista Pufahl to her team after it dropped Game 2 to Reed Custer in Thursday’s Class 2A Sectional Championship at...
(Joliet, IL) -- A Will County man could be facing 55-years in prison after being convicted a second time of stabbing his former boss to death in 2007. Three years ago, an appellate court cited a judge's mistake and threw out the...
In Kankakee Circuit Court... 29-year-old Gregoria Perez was sentenced Tuesday to 23 years in prison. She pleaded guilty to killing her 13-month-old daughter in February 2010.
A lesser charge of aggravated battery to a child was...
Officials in Goodland, IN say one man was injured when a recliner fire damaged an apartment at a senior-living facility Thursday.
The un-identified man suffered burns when he tried to put the fire out himself. The fire was at...
Kankakee Community College is closing its Business Center. It's another casualty of the state of Illinois' budget mess. Funding isn't available to sustain operations.
The center provides support for businesses...
State Senator Toi Hutchinson says “it’s a violation of state law” and people of the state shouldn’t have to bear the brunt of funding not being channeled to the right source.
Hutchinson was at a press conference in Bourbonnais...
