Firefighters were called to a business in the 2700 block of East Division in Diamond Thursday morning. Wilmington Fire saying a Taco Bell KFC combo store had a small fire in the wall of the restaurant, just inside the entrance. The fire was quickly extinguished. The building was filled with light smoke for a time and ...

Kankakee's employment rate fell in March to 6.4 percent. That's down from 6.8 in February but still slightly higher than the 6.2 in March of last year. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports that Kankakee County added five hundred jobs over the last year. Rockford has the highest jobless rate in the s...

A Coal City man who had multiple arrests for driving under the influence when arrested again for DUI in 2023 has pleaded guilty aggravated DUI and has been sentenced to seven years in prison. However, if 68 year old Roberto Rodriquez passes an alternative treatment Grundy County court program, he goes free. If not, R...

A Coal City man who had multiple arrests for driving under the influence when arrested again for DUI in 2023 has pleaded guilty aggravated DUI and has been sentenced to seven years in prison. However, if 68 year old Roberto Rodriquez passes an alternative treatment Grundy County court program, he goes free. If not, R...

We have the name now of that former Olivet student, accused of making threatening statements against the University earlier this week. In a Facebook post, Bourbonnais Police say Urbana Police arrested Boston Brooks Monday for allegedly making a terrorist threat against ONU. Brooks had a bond hearing in Urbana Court Wed...

Wilmington police allegedly dropped off a Venezuelan immigrant in Kankakee, instead of arresting him, after he allegedly tried to get into multiple Wilmington homes. Media reports say the man told a woman in one home at the time that he was an immigrant and needed help that the government was not providing and he has ...

In Will County Court Tuesday, Judge David Carlson ruled that prosecutors can charge Jeremy Boshears in a second trial for the 2017 death of 24 year old Katie Kearns of New Lenox. In his first trial, Boshears was convicted of killing Kearns at the Joliet Outlaws Club then putting her body in her SUV and stashing the ve...

Bradley police were called to a domestic incident last night in the 1500 block of Northfield Meadows Blvd. Upon arrival officers found multiple people at the home where a man and a woman had been attacked allegedly by Robert A. Miller of Bourbonnais. According to police it began with an argument between two people wh...

A Wilmington woman who was stopped by Will County Sheriff's police on Rt. 113 near I-55 on March 28th for a broken windshield, and ended up being arrested on an outstanding warrant, is also now facing charges of aggravated battery to police. Deputies, after being told she was going to be taken into custody on the warr...

A Student at Olivet Nazarene University may have prevented a tragedy when they reported to school officials Monday that he had been communicating with a former student with a grudge against the school who was making threats against the university and spoke of taking some kind of action today. The school called Bourbo...