This year’s (2020) Spring Farmers Market in downtown Kankakee is all go. It’s set for Saturday. This year it’s a Drive-Thru only market. Vendors are taking pre-orders for the Saturday distribution. Instructions call for visitors...
The frontline heroes dealing with the coronavirus pandemic get a pat-on-the-back and a free meal from McDonald’s restaurants.
Several owners of McDonald’s restaurants are part of an effort to provide a FREE meal to local...
Two pre-school children and a resident in their 30s are the latest to test positive with COVID-19 coronavirus from Vermilion County. The Vermilion County Health Department also reports its first death from the disease, a man in...
Aunt Martha’s Health & Wellness Center on E. Court Street in Kankakee is now offering drive-thru testing for COVID-19. The tests are by appointment only. To schedule, call 877-692-8686.
Aunt Martha’s also offers the service...
Illinois saw its highest single-day COVID-19 death total yesterday (Tuesday). State health officials announced 144 deaths, lifting the state to over 21-hundred. Kankakee County recorded its 28th coronavirus...
Four people were jailed in Livingston County after police conducted a traffic stop and then searched a trailer park residence. Charged with possession of a controlled substance were: 33-year-old Steven Carls of Fairbury...
Kankakee Police are investigating reports of weekend gun-play. One incident was at an apartment complex where one tenant told police he believed another tenant burglarized his apartment. It was Friday night on N. Greenwood Avenue...
A Saturday night shooting in Remington, IN left one person dead, another wounded. And – four people are under arrest. It happened at the Family Express service station on Route 24 at I-65. Four men from Indianapolis are in...
Health department officials in area counties report increases in positive tests for the coronavirus disease. Iroquois County added two more postive cases Monday, now up to 20. A female in her 50's and a male in his 60's...
Iroquois County Assessment Officer Robert Yergler is informing senior citizens that the deadline to file the 2020 Senior Citizens Homestead Assessment Freeze with the Department of Revenue (form PTAX 340) is July1...
