New unemployment rates show numbers on the rise in East Central Illinois.
Iroquois, Ford and Kankakee county jobless were all up in December compared to November and a year earlier.
Champaign County's unemployment rate was 8.2...
PEORIA - Two men formerly associated with Towanda Grain Company have been sentenced to six and ten years in prison.
Federal prosecutors report Central Illinois farmer 46-year-old Robert James Printz of Fairbury, was handed a 10...
District 21 State Police reported traffic was altered this (Thur) morning when a semi overturned in Kankakee County at Route 45/52. Traffic between County Roads 5,000 and 6,000 was a bit snarled from the accident.
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Vermilion County Coroner Peggy Johnson said (Thursday) that some remains found Thursday in the rubble of a house that was leveled by a fire were determined to be human.
Now, an autopsy is planned Friday morning.
Johnson reported...
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-Channahon) today voted in support of legislation to reauthorize and modernize federal farm and nutrition programs for five years. The legislation reduces fraud and abuse in the...
Healthgrades Hospital Quality Report Names Riverside a Recipient of the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™
Posted: Monday, January 27, 2014
KANKAKEE, IL (January 27, 2014) – Healthgrades announced this week...
Local farmer Melvin Coulter has directed a $2,500 donation to the Loda Fire Protection District. Funded by America's Farmers Grow Communities, the donation will help the department purchase extrication equipment, specifically air...
Vermilion County Coroner Peggy Johnson reports remains found at the scene of a house fire near Homer last Friday night are not human. That was the ruling from an anthropologist It was originally feared by authorities that a fire...
ASHKUM – Following a joint investigation by Illinois State Police, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Kankakee Police, Kankakee County Sheriff's Police and the Kankakee County Coroner's Office, a Kankakee man has been...
"60-Day Hunger Drive" aims to raise $100,000 to alleviate hunger in Illinois and western Indiana
Champaign, Ill. – Birkey's Farm Store, Inc., a full-line Case IH dealer with 13 locations in central Illinois and Indiana, is...
