The annual crime report for Bradley was a mixed bag, but two obvious trends in 2022 were significant movement within the categories of burglary and property crimes.
A $95 million reconstruction of the long-antiquated Interstate 57 interchange at East Court Street is finally set and construction could begin by 2027.
The length of the elected office for Kankakee Valley Park District commissioners will be reduced from six years to four years following the board’s vote this week.
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A broken water heater at Liberty Intermediate School is being replaced after the purchase was approved during Tuesday’s meeting of the Bourbonnais Elementary School Board.
For Kankakee’s Florence Stove Company, Jan. 1, 1951, was anything but hopeful and positive. On that day, a fast-moving fire ripped through the company’s 58,000-square foot warehouse, destroying more than 30,000 products ready for shipment.
The committee approved seven requests for funding, including $1.5 million for the new Kankakee County Animal Control building in Bourbonnais. The funds must be given final approval by the full county board at its next meeting on April 11.
Kankakee County State's Attorney Jim Rowe, in partnership with Animal Control & Adoption Center and the Kankakee County Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, will present the Animal Welfare Conference on April 13 at Kankakee Community College.
The Economic and Community Development Agency will host a workshop at 5:30 p.m. April 11 in the ECDA Office, 200 E Court St., Suite 410, Kankakee. This workshop will review home maintenance checklists.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday will be the season’s reopening of the French Heritage Museum at the Stone Barn, 165 N. Indiana Ave., Kankakee. From 10 a.m. to noon, patrons can purchase coffee from Brew Head Espresso.
From 1-6 p.m. March 31, a drive will be held at the Bourbonnais Fire Department, 1080 Armour Road, Bourbonnais. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Speckman Realty and Municipal Bank will sponsor the event.
New to the youth services department is Reading with Mavis, a program where youngsters can practice their reading skills by reading aloud to Mavis, a 6-year-old therapy dog.
Dr. Roth’s Mobile Vet Clinic is this year’s Daily Journal Progress Awards winner for Small Business of the Year.
The Kankakee County-based CSL Behring facility is expanding to include a CSL Plasma donation center. For these efforts, CSL is receiving the Daily Journal's Progress Award for Large Business of the Year.
For her 15 years of work with Riverside Senior Life, sales counselor Ashley Webber has received the Progress Award for Hospitality.
Due to its continued work at expanding local housing opportunities, the Economic Alliance of Kankakee County is recognized at the Progress Award winner for Excellence in Real Estate.
For redeveloping its emergency room to increase safety, privacy and effectiveness, the Daily Journal is recognizing Riverside Medical Center as the Innovator in Health Care as part of the 2023 Progress Awards.
In June of 2022 Restoriation Works' Light Wave Stripper was granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va. The company at 320 S. Forest Ave. in Bradley is being recognized as this year’s Innovator in Technology as part of the Daily Journal’s 2023 Progress Awards.
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Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, a historic reckoning after years of investigations into his personal, political and business dealings and an abrupt jolt to his bid to retake the White House.
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An alarm blared and lights flashed as a heavily armed assailant stalked the hallways of The Covenant School.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.
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Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on Monday after a shooter opened fire inside the building containing about 200 students, police said.
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The Pentagon on Thursday released video of what it said was a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone before the warplane clipped the drone's propeller in international airspace, leading to its crash in the Black Sea and raising tensions between Moscow and Washington over the war in Ukraine.
One year after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, and caused widespread suffering, the global economy is still enduring the consequences — crunched supplies of grain, fertilizer and energy along with more inflation and economic uncertainty in a world that was already contending with too much of both.
Ukraine's leader pledged Friday to push for victory in 2023 as he and other Ukrainians marked the somber anniversary of the Russian invasion that upended their lives and Europe's security.
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Wastewater samples taken at Kankakee River Metropolitan Agency are tested for SARS CoV-2 as part of the Illinois Wastewater Surveillance System, which monitors the levels of coronavirus and other pathogens in communities throughout the state.
A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies around the world since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab?
After an uptick of COVID-19 cases around the end of 2022, Kankakee County is starting to see the numbers come down.
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From No. 13 seed Furman beating fourth-seeded Virginia to No. 15 Princeton defeating second-seeded Arizona, most NCAA Tournament brackets were busted Thursday before the sun went down.
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Monday's college scores and results.
KCC baseball opened its season on March 4 with a 10-game road trip at Southeastern Illinois while KCC softball continues its season with a double-header against Three Rivers College on March 5.
The Tigers finished second in the small team routine division as one of four area schools that competed at the IESA Cheerleading State Finals.
Bishop McNamara and Dwight both played in the IESA State Tournament Saturday, which was held at McNamara.
Bourbonnais News
The committee approved seven requests for funding, including $1.5 million for the new Kankakee County Animal Control building in Bourbonnais. The funds must be given final approval by the full county board at its next meeting on April 11.
From 1-6 p.m. March 31, a drive will be held at the Bourbonnais Fire Department, 1080 Armour Road, Bourbonnais. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Speckman Realty and Municipal Bank will sponsor the event.
On behalf of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the village of Bourbonnais is assisting in outreach efforts for transportation study participants. The study, sponsored by the Illinois Department of Transportation, will be conducted this week.
Bradley News
The annual crime report for Bradley was a mixed bag, but two obvious trends in 2022 were significant movement within the categories of burglary and property crimes.
The legal sale of recreational marijuana will begin in Kankakee County on Wednesday in the location which once was the longtime home for an Aldi grocery store.
The Kankakee County Community Crisis Response Team will be holding a Law Enforcement Use of Force meeting from 8 a.m. to noon on April 8 in the Iroquois Room at Kankakee Community College.
Manteno News
Fire heavily damaged the home of a family of nine in Manteno on Friday.
In the April 4 general election voters will decide whether to approve an one-quarter cent (0.25%) countywide sales tax that will fund mental health in Kankakee County. It will be a simple yes or no vote, and majority wins. If the referendum passes, it's expected to generate approximately $3 million annually to fund mental health.
The board and committee at Project Headspace and Timing knows that its capacity to effect change only comes through learning what the veteran community needs most. With that, the organization asks the community for feedback through a short survey.
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Frozen fruits and vegetables take a lot of heat because most people assume that, if it’s frozen, it must be of a lesser quality and nutritional value than the same items fresh in the produce department.
Have you ever stopped to think about brand loyalty? Most of us have favorite brands. However, you may not have considered that your brand loyalty may actually be costing you money.
On Feb. 25 at the Knights of Columbus in Kankakee, the Zonta Club of Kankakee County hosted Party Gras, a fundraiser to support Zonta's local and international service projects.
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Truth is stranger than fiction in the new Apple TV+ film “Tetris,” starring Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers, a gaming software entrepreneur in the 1980s who stumbled upon what would become the next video addiction, Tetris.
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