For many, the weddings that couples had dreamt about and planned for are off due to coronavirus-related restrictions.
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For many, the weddings that couples had dreamt about and planned for are off due to coronavirus-related restrictions.
BOURBONNAIS — Olivet Nazarene University has opened three of its on-campus residential buildings to local medical personnel and first responders who want to quarantine themselves because of coronavirus exposure.
The Kankakee County Health Department is now announcing a third death of a Kankakee County resident who tested positive for coronavirus disease.
KANKAKEE — Kankakee County would rather not be one of the leaders in the state when it comes to this ranking, but it has one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the state.
Bourbonnais Township Park District announced Tuesday that all playgrounds are now closed.
BOURBONNAIS — Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 officials addressed budgetary concerns surrounding coronavirus closures during a school board meeting Tuesday.
The coronavirus pandemic has a disturbing side effect — heightened risks of domestic violence.
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School has listed the following students on the honor roll for the first semester of 2019-20:
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KANKAKEE — The Kankakee County Health Department announced two more coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, bringing the total death count to five.
Manteno is the first Kankakee County community to take this action.
KANKAKEE — Kankakee police are investigating the shooting of a 24-year-old male that occurred at 12:15 p.m. Friday.
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2020 Progress Awards
Fast forward to 2018 when OAK Surgical Institute began offering select joint-replacement patients the opportunity to go home the same day as their surgery.
The leasing of the former Sears Logistics location in Manteno to Lowe's Home Improvement is the largest industrial lease ever in the Chicagoland market, not including warehouses built for a specific tenant.
Two of downtown Kankakee's most prominent office buildings — the PNC Bank building and Clock Tower Centre — have been sold for $1.43 million to two developers.
After months of planning and mapping, Kankakee's East Court Street Tax Increment Financing District is in place.
CSL Behring is on the verge of entering into the latest chapter of the success story it has created as a Kankakee County manufacturing facility.
City property assessed values will increase by a projected $10.8 million this year.
Women have become increasingly more involved with business ownership.
Troy Clark, born and raised in Kankakee, is finally doing something he’s comfortable with, but he knows he’s capable of much more.
The lights provide a canopy of optimism. The optimism is not for returning the downtown district to what it once was — meaning a regional retail hub — but for what the district is on its way to becoming.
A few years ago, members of the Hospice of Kankakee Valley leadership team began to entertain visions of establishing a Community Grief Center.
Riverside Behavioral Medicine is being recognized as an Innovator in Healthcare by the Daily Journal’s 2020 Progress Awards for developing initiatives to increase access to mental health services in Kankakee County.
Bradley bucked the trend of tax referendum questions being rejected during Tuesday's primary election.
Local coverage of coronavirus
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the country could be headed into its “toughest” weeks yet as the coronavirus death toll mounts, but at the same time he expressed growing impatience with social distancing guidelines and said he’s eager to get the country reopened…
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York governor said Saturday the Chinese government was facilitating a shipment of 1,000 donated ventilators to his state, highlighting the extreme measures leaders are taking in what has become a cutthroat scramble to independently secure enough lifesaving devices dur…
This past week, New York got worse — far worse. In New York City, as morgue space ran out, people started wondering where the bodies will go and the funeral industry struggled to keep up. On the streets of a city accustomed to the exact opposite of social distancing, New Yorkers found a new,…
As the number of infections from the new coronavirus has grown to more than 1.1 million worldwide, health care systems are straining under the surge of patients and lack of medical equipment like ventilators, protective masks and gloves. The New York governor said the Chinese government was …
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite state and local limits on public gatherings, some faith leaders have persisted in holding in-person services -- a matter of religious freedom, they say, as the nation approached its fourth Sunday battling the coronavirus pandemic.
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Catching up with former Bradley-Bourbonnais girls basketball stars - Vinisha Sherrod, Mikayla Brandon and Kennedy Weigt - who have all since gone on to play college hoops.
Mason Schweizer catches up with New York Mets prospect Colin Holderman.
Bourbonnais News
BOURBONNAIS — The Bourbonnais Elementary School Board approved a $21 per hour rate for bus drivers in place of its current per-route pay structure in effort to recruit and retain drivers during a meeting Tuesday.
Special Olympics Illinois recently awarded the Bourbonnais Police Department with a gold medal.
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There will be no late fees assessed on village sewer bills from now through May, due to the difficult times faced by residents due to the coronavirus.
The Bradley-based orthopedics practice recently merged with the expansive Illinois Bone & Joint Institute.
Manteno News
MANTENO — Dawn Foods, a Manteno-based business since 2007, has been sold to a Minneapolis, Minn.-based company which focuses on frozen baking ingredients.
MANTENO — Manteno police will be doing some things differently in response to the coronavirus.Manteno Chief Al Swinford said the department will follow recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It is on to the Round of 16 for Plochman's Mustard of Manteno in the Illinois Manufacturers' Association's "Makers Madness" business competition.
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- Ron Jackson: Do-nothing lifestyle creates dilemma
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- Star Parker: Free people take responsibility and solve problems
- Ben Shapiro: Stop pretending pandemic politics are the new norm
- Dennis Marek: Not at this time in my life
- Voice of the People: Use the tools available to fight pandemic
- State's jobless fund will need another bailout
- How can we trust 'fair tax' with no fair maps?
- Park district correct to bounce public from courts
- Scott Reeder: With Prine diagnosis, pandemic hits home
- Gary Moore: Finding joy in quarantine
- Stephen Moore: Atlas is shrugging
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