There was a grand re-opening today of the Strack and Van Til in Lowell. Spokesman Derek Kinney says the store has been remodeled, top to bottom and inside out. The grocery store is located in the 2000 block of East Commercial Ave. in Lowell

A Dwight man has been arrested after he allegedly left the scene of an accident involving a pedestrian on February 15th . According to Grundy County Sheriff's police, 34 year old Joseph Smothers was southbound on Rt. 66 near Old Mazon Road when he allegedly struck a pedestrian who was walking along the side of the ro...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's 55-point-two billion dollar 2025 spending plans do not include new taxes. He unveiled the budget this afternoon in Springfield. The proposal also cuts health care for immigrant adults who don't have legal status. Another proposal ensures medication abortion pills would remain legal in...

A traffic stop Tuesday morning netted Kankakee City Police a drug arrest. According to reports, it was just after 11 yesterday morning when officers stopped the pick-up driven by 43-year-old Jose D. Melendez-Cruz for not having a front license plate. Reports say Cruz was found to be on parole and a search of Cruz repor...

Kankakee City Police report an arrest after a 40-year-old man allegedly battered a woman. It was just after five last nigh when city police were called to a business in the 900 block of East Court Street where a woman told them Brian C. Thornton had stopped her outside the store and asked her to buy him some cigarettes...

Kankakee City Police are investigating after a home on North Wildwood Avenue was broken into Tuesday morning. According to reports, officers were called to the home just after 11:30 yesterday morning by a woman who said she and her family members had left the home about 9:30 in the morning and returned to find a safe i...

Kankakee County Sheriff's Police report a second arrest in connection with a shooting in Limestone late last month. 21-year-old Cortez M Baines of Kankakee was arrested as part of a traffic stop just before 2 Tuesday afternoon. Baines is the second person arrested in connection with the January 27th shooting in Limesto...

During this morning's meeting of the Kankakee County Board's Executive Committee, Veteran's Assistance Commission Superintendent Eric Peterson gave the committee an update on services offered by the Commission. Peterson said unfortunately, changes in Washington mean some outreach personnel from Hines VA that had been c...