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In the All-City rivals' first matchup since 2019, the Boilermakers got solid team play on both ends of the floor in their win at McNamara Tuesday.
Tuesday's college and prep scores and results.
Kankakee edged Bloom 49-27 on Monday to improve to 8-1 in the Southland Athletic Conference.
Area cheerleading enthusiasts are encouraged to flock to Turner Gymnasium at Bradley-Bourbonnais Saturday morning, where the Boilermakers will be hosting one of five IHSA Cheer Sectionals across the state.
Bradley-Bourbonnais and Central will both induct new classes to its athletic halls of fame this week.
Sunday's prep scores and results.
Saturday's prep scores and results.
Without its senior backcourt duo of Jaxson Provost and Isaiah Davis, the Fightin' Irish were still able to open their Friday night home game on a 15-0 run to set the stage for a 35-point win over Elmwood Park.
Friday's prep scores and results.
The Week in Photos
We’re not even out of January, but I’m penciling in “Extraordinary” as one of my favorite new comedies of 2023. Streaming on Hulu, this wonderfully smart series, written by newcomer Emma Moran and produced by the talent behind “Killing Eve,” offers a welcome sendup of the superhero mythology that has been suffocating pop culture for too long.
What's playing this weekend at Cinemark 10 Movies, Paramount Theatre and Meadowview Theatre.
View live music shows scheduled for this weekend.
I was never a fan of “Sex and the City.” But it’s painful to watch Kim Cattrall reduced to a cartoon character as the narrator of “How I Met Your Father,” the spinoff sitcom streaming its second season on Hulu. Ensconced in her living room of the future, she guzzles wine, noshes on pasta and…
“The Bachelor” (7 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) returns for its 27th season. Normally, when a show has been running so long, it’s OK to wonder “Wow, 27 seasons already?” But in the case of “The Bachelor,” it’s more likely one wonders how there have been only 27.
From 6-9 p.m. on Feb. 10 and 17, Kankakee Valley Park District is hosting a new mug making class, taught by local ceramicist Courtney Zimmerman.
Local Features
On Monday, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation held its annual Interfaith Prayer Breakfast at Olivet Nazarene University. The breakfast was attended by over 200 community members and leaders.
In this weekend's A Taylor-Made Life, Life editor Taylor Leddin-McMaster writes about overcoming the hurdles surrounding creativity.
My vacuum sealing machine is one of my favorite kitchen appliances. I vacuum seal fresh fruit to extend the use by at least two weeks, often much longer. Read moreWays to use a FoodSaver vacuum sealer that have nothing to do with food
Dear Dave: Earlier this month, my husband and I both were laid off from our jobs within a few days of each other. The layoffs were not our fault. The company is letting several people go as a cost-cutting measure. Read moreRemember, you’re a team
Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some good reacher-grabber tools for seniors with back or hip problems who need help picking things up off the ground? I bought a cheap one a few months ago that doesn’t work very well but would like to find one that does. — Bad Back Betty
Books
“‘Vengeance’ is a twisting story about the consuming desire to get even and the extreme lengths some will travel to quench the thirst of revenge,” Bourbonnais author Jim Hair said. Read moreLocal Author Spotlight: Bourbonnais author releases debut novel, talks 'twisting story'
What's new on the bookshelf this week. Read moreNew on the bookshelf: Jan. 21, 2023
Sports headlines
- GIRLS BASKETBALL: BBCHS earns All-City win at Mac in renewed rivalry
- PHOTOS: Bradley-Bourbonnais vs. Andrew Unified basketball
- ROUNDUP: Trinity boys top Donovan; Kays win late over Thornridge
- GIRLS BASKETBALL: Kankakee's hot start helps hold off Bloom
- BBCHS hosting cheerleading sectional
- ROUNDUP: Peotone girls improve to 21-0
- BBCHS, Central honoring Hall of Fame inductees
- ROUNDUP: Kankakee Irish outshoot Decatur Flames
- ROUNDUP: Coalers claim ICE wrestling crown; Peotone girls avenge last season's regional loss
- BOYS BASKETBALL: Undermanned McNamara moves past Elmwood Park

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By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer
CHICAGO — There was a time when Tom Sadowski thought he'd stop working after turning 65 earlier this year. But he's put off retirement for at least five years — and now anticipates continuing to do some work afterward.
SPRINGFIELD — State officials say Illinois families receiving federal nutrition assistance will start seeing a monthly decrease in November.
INDIANAPOLIS — Relatives of 68 people who died in a 1994 commuter plane crash in northwestern Indiana are raising money to build a permanent memorial near the crash site they hope to dedicate on next year's 20th anniversary of the crash.
A Chicago alderman who predicted an ordinance allowing police officers to ticket people with small amounts of marijuana would bring in as much as $7 million a year wants to know why after 14 months the city has collected less than $70,000.
SPRINGFIELD — Busloads of gay marriage opponents held their own rally outside the Capitol Wednesday, pledging to reverse any headway in the push for state legislation that would allow same-sex weddings.
SPARKS, Nev. — A shooting at a middle school in northern Nevada has left two people dead and two boys in critical condition, rattling parents, teachers and students as they showed up for the start of the school week.
After a five-month, $425 million renovation, a busy stretch of a Chicago Transit Authority train line reopened Sunday.
Illinois lawmakers are considering a series of measures aimed at making the state's waterways safer, including a bill that would impose stiffer penalties on people caught operating a boat while intoxicated.
SPRINGFIELD — School administrators in Illinois are being warned to prepare for even less state funding for the next fiscal year.
Rossville is selling off about a dozen lots at $1 each, hoping to convince people to relocate to Vermillion County from the big city.
CHICAGO — Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says the state's pension crisis could be addressed in the fall legislative session even if a committee working on it remains split.
ROSEVILLE — For the past 33 years, the annual Illinois Corn Husking Contest has brought crowds from across the state to compete in local fields. Resurrected in Fairview in the 1980s, the competition was brought to Warren County in 1991 as a result of hard work by Bob St. George and Bill Gill…
Kenneth and Martha Redeker, of Onarga, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20 at St. Paul's Lutheran School in Woodworth. The anniversary will be hosted by their children and grandchildren. They have three children: Kris Bartelt…
CHICAGO — Calling the proposed Illiana Expressway "a highway in nowhere land," the chairman of northeastern Illinois' official planning agency called for an end to Gov. Pat Quinn's push for the $1.3 billion tollway.
SPRINGFIELD — The State Board of Education is announcing a series of public hearings as it re-examines school funding in Illinois.
CHICAGO — Chicago gang members who have roared through intersections, driven on the wrong side of the road and even fired guns out of their car windows during funeral processions might have to walk to the next funeral, if proposed city ordinance is passed.
Exelon Generation says one of two reactors at the company's Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station is back at full power after a refueling outage.
An appeals court has ordered ComEd to refund almost $37 million to its northern Illinois customers following a six-year legal dispute.
JOLIET — A Will County judge is allowing a wrongful death case against former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson to go forward.
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