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A nitric acid leak in Gilman (Wednesday) brought emergency responders to the Pilot Travel Center, along Route 24. Clean-up crews were on the job. No Injury was reported. Iroquois County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) reported...

The Riverside Medical Center’s Kankakee campus was lockdown (Tuesday) following a threat made by a patient’s family member. The 3-hour lockdown ended at 5:15 pm, once officials determined the threat was no longer an issue for the...

                                               IDOT teaming up with ISP, local police to deter monstrous...

The Kankakee School Board has voted to fire a teacher after a video posted online showed him calling a student a racial slur. After the video was posted online, algebra teacher John Donovan was placed on administrative leave...

Residents north of 2nd Street in Donovan are under a boil order 'til further notice. A water main break was repaired Monday. In Gilman, the boil order issued last Friday for Park Court was listed Tuesday. 94.1 WGFA
Iroquois County Sheriff's Police, Kankakee County Sheriff's department, Illinois & INdiana State Police and local police departments are all participating in the Drug Take-Back Program this weekend. Information and drop-off sites...

The Lorenzo R. Smith Elementary School is the setting for a satellite office in Hopkins Park to help residents apply for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program and the Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program...

A water main break in Donovan is being repaired today (Tuesday).  Water will be turned off-and-on while the repairs are completed.  Once completed, a boil order will be in place for residents north of 2nd Street --...

Republican Darren Bailey has moved into a virtual tie with Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in the race for Illinois chief executive. According to an Osage Research poll, Bailey received 42% and Pritzker 44% among likely voters...

Illinois’ unemployment rate is the worst in the country and more than two percentage points higher than Missouri’s. Only the District of Columbia had a higher rate of 4.7% while Illinois’ is 4.5%. The national average is 3.5%...