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The Livingston County Board is considering a request to overturn the county's 16-year ban on tattoo businesses. The ban was approved in November 1996 following a 1995 incident involving a Pontiac resident who tattooed three...

Former Limestone Township Fire Chief Jeff Brosseau's sentencing has been delayed in Kankakee Circuit Court. Brosseau pleaded guilty in March to stealing up to $55,000 from the fire district fund. He's agreed to repay...

A 48-year-old Kankakee man will serve a seven-year prison term for arson. Umaran Talley was handed the prison time for a series of fires set last summer in Kankakee and Bradley. Talley entered a plea deal to a single count of...

State Treasurer Dan Rutherford made a stop in Kankakee Tuesday, two days after he announced he was running for Governor in 2014. Rutherford is on a three-day swing in the state, stressing his push to change the climate in...

Presence Health and Watseka's Iroquois Memorial Hospital (IMH) have signed a letter of intent to form an affiliation. "Presence Health welcomes the opportunity to partner with Iroquois Memorial Hospital," said Sandra Bruce...

Grant Park mayor J.R. Meyer and 10 other local officials resigned suddenly last (Mon) night, forcing the Kankakee County town to re-group under new direction. Nine of the village's 12 park board members also resigned. Trustee...

The family of a Hoopeston man who died inside the Ford County Jail last year is suing the Ford County Sheriff's department. The suit alleges Richard Gonzales was put in solitary confinement and denied medical care. Arthur...

A group of local businessman in Fairbury is making noise to place a hotel at what's considered a famous corner in the Livingston County community. The new facility would occupy the lower level of the Walton Centre in downtown...

An autopsy was scheduled for today (Mon) as Iroquois County authorities look into the death of a 51-year-old Michigan man killed Saturday night on I-57. Charles Clay Jr. of Battle Creek (MI) was pronounced dead at the scene...

There was a lot of sound and fury with storms that blew through East Central Illinois late Friday night but apparently little property damage. High winds and heavy rain that rocked the Springfield area around 8:30 p.m. appeared...