Durham Park will host several activities for the 2019 July 4 celebration in Onarga. Events planned include the Grand Parade at 11 am Thursday, July 4, followed by a flag raising ceremony. The fireworks are at dusk...
You may have filled your gas tank over the weekend to lessen the blow of today’s (Monday) new gas tax in Illinois. The state gas tax doubled. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the infrastructure bill in Springfield. The measure adds an...
Much of the Illiana area was hit hard by high winds and reports of a tornado on Sunday. The NWS issued a severe T-storm warning that extended across southern Livingston County, into Ford and Iroquois County. Weather-observers...
A section of Route 45 thru Ashkum is now officially recognized as the Dana Schoolman Memorial Highway. A dedicatiion event was held Saturday at the Ashkum Firehouse to memorialize the fireman/EMT who died in the line of duty in...
The unemployment rate in Kankakee fell in May. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports the number at 4.2 percent. That’s down from 4.7 percent in May of last year.
Iroquois County’s unemployment in May was at...
Aging buildings and continuous flooding issues has forced the Unit Nine school board to find solutions. A three-phase study is moving forward to seek a new building or remodel current structures. Board president James...
A Hoopeston man faces theft charges in connection with stolen playground equipment. 65-year-old Larry Lane allegedly took the playground equipment from a site where it was being stored awaiting set-up at McFerren Park.
Hoopeston...
A 67-year-old Paxton woman was found dead in her mobile home after firefighters responded to a fire Wednesday night. Ford County Coroner Rick Flessner identified Peggy S. Elkins. She was pronounced dead at the scene on W. Pine...
Iroquois
Cissna Park
7/10/2019: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., American Legion, 124 South Second Street
Gilman
7/11/2019: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m., St. Paul Lutheran, 116 N. Thomas
Milford
7/16/2019: 2 p.m. - 6 p.m., St. Pauls Lutheran School, 113 W...
A woman is dead after a house fire Wednesday night. It happened at a home near West Pine and North Maple Street sometime around 10 p.m.
The Ford County Coroner’s Office reports the woman was a hospice patient. She was alone. No...
