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...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM CST /6 PM
EST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 AM CST /7 AM EST/ SATURDAY...

* WHAT...MIXED PRECIPITATION EXPECTED. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS
OF UP TO TWO INCHES AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE TENTH TO TWO
TENTHS OF AN INCH.

* WHERE...KANKAKEE, WILL AND IROQUOIS COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS AND
LAKE, PORTER, NEWTON, JASPER AND BENTON COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST
INDIANA.

* WHEN...FROM 5 PM CST /6 PM EST/ FRIDAY TO 6 AM CST /7 AM EST/
SATURDAY.

* IMPACTS...PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS. THE HAZARDOUS
CONDITIONS COULD IMPACT THE EVENING COMMUTE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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St. Anne man makes and gives away toys year-round

St. Anne man makes and gives away toys year-round

  • Laura McElroy | lmcelroy@daily-journal.com | 815-937-3368

The holiday season is a time of giving, but for Joe Hayward the giving season is year-round. Hayward, 83, of St. Anne, hand makes wooden toy pick-up trucks, tank trucks and car roadsters. ...READ MORE

3 Days of autumn in Door County

3 Days of autumn in Door County

  • Frank Hosek Special to the Daily Journal

The late October sun warmed us against a cool autumn air as we sat down to our lunch. An array of locally made cheeses, crisp fresh-picked apples and slices of cherry-infused hard sausage were spread upon one of many picnic tables situated in Cave Point County Park. ...READ MORE

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KVYSO holding fall concert

KVYSO holding fall concert

  • Daily Journal staff report

The Kankakee Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra will perform its fall concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Kankakee High School auditorium at 1200 W. Jeffery St. in Kankakee. ...READ MORE

Year's best movie

Year's best movie

  • Pam Powell Special to the Daily Journal

What the world needs now is exactly what “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” provides. Starring Tom Hanks as the beloved children’s television show host Fred Rogers and Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel, a talented yet jaded journalist who must interview Rogers for Esquire Magazine, much to his … ...READ MORE

'Marriage Story' can be cautionary tale

'Marriage Story' can be cautionary tale

  • Pam Powell Special to the Daily Journal

The film “Marriage Story” is an emotionally raw and intimate portrayal of a marriage breaking apart and the effects upon both the couple and the child is a cautionary tale giving insight and perspective from all angles. ...READ MORE

'Midway' brings WW II story to life

'Midway' brings WW II story to life

  • Pam Powell

World War II as in WWII. Those four little letters elicit undeniable and heavily laden emotions filled with pride for “the greatest generation” to which my father, a WW II Army Air Corps veteran who saw Italy and Europe from the glass bubble of a B17 Bomber—a ball turret gunner—belonged. ...READ MORE