On Oct. 4, 16-year-old Cooper went to the Kankakee County Courthouse with his mom, Haven (Poppie) Walters, and stepdad, ...

In this weekend's A Taylor-Made Life, Taylor Leddin-McMaster writes about the challenge to try 30 new things in her 30th year ...

The headline from a discussion last week of the prospects for Metra in the coming years was certainly attention-getting: ...

Kankakee Valley Theatre Association will hold one special performance of the classic Christmas tale, Charles Dickens’ A ...

On Sunday evening, Oct. 8, 1871, a small barn on the west side of Chicago was consumed by a fire that soon spread to ...

My Blue Book is open and saddens my day, on this Nov. 18. Each week I open the calendar book I’ve used since 1980 to note ...

Mason Schweizer's column remembers Deb Johnston, who devoted her adult life to the same Kankakee community she grew up in, ...

Bradley-Bourbonnais senior Savannah Zirbel’s highly-decorated high school swimming career has come to an end. Zirbel went out ...

Deb Johnston, retired longtime physical education teacher and coach who became a pillar in Kankakee girls sports, as well as ...

At Grant Park Elementary School, one could walk down a hallway and see windows open in one classroom and kids wearing coats ...

Ascension Saint Mary Kankakee has earned an A Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit ...

Aqua Illinois gained a rate hike, but not the one it had sought. The Illinois Commerce Commission on Thursday granted the ...