It's the start of another weekend, that means it's time to find out what's going on in the area with Nicole Gavin, Executive Director of Visit Kankakee County

38-year-old Wayne R. Hipple of Bourbonnais has been sentenced to four-years in prison for possession child sexual abuse materials. Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office says Hipple was sentenced Wednesday in Kankakee County Court, after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child porn. Hipple was arrested in Septe...

Michael Madigan's landmark corruption trial is one step closer to finishing. Attorneys for the former Illinois House Speaker formally rested their case yesterday. There was a brief rebuttal case from prosecutors, who then also rested. Jurors are expected to return next Wednesday to begin hearing closing arguments. ...

A Kankakee man could spend the next 25 years in prison after he allegedly robbed a female postal worker at gunpoint in Chicago last week on East 158th Street and Union Avenue. According to the Daily Journal, 18 year old Ahmel Holmes was taken into custody at a nearby home after a brief investigation by post office ins...

Kankakee police were called to an alley off West Mertens street yesterday afternoon for a report of shots being fired. Upon arrival a woman told officers she saw a car in the alley driving recklessly from her kitchen window with the driver firing a gun out the driver's side window. A neighbor tells police he also hea...

A woman leaving a parking spot last night at a drinking establishment in the 600 block of West Station Street, accidentally put her vehicle in drive instead of reverse. Kankakee police say the resulting collision with the east side of the building broke through the wall and damaged a gas line. The driver was not hurt,...

The Illinois Department of Revenue will begin accepting 2024 state tax returns on January 27th. That is the same date that the IRS begins accepting federal individual income tax returns. Illinois will be participating in the IRS Direct File program this year. Eligible taxpayers will be able to use the program to elec...

A Sauk Village man is charged in a crash on I-55 involving two Illinois State Police troopers in Cook County. Authorities say two troopers were inside of their squad cars handling a crash Tuesday on I-55 just south of Harlem Avenue when a Honda Accord failed to move over and hit both squad cars. One trooper and their ...