Another of those Secret Food Pantry mobile pop-up events is planned for this afternoon in the Village of Bourbonnais. This one runs from noon til one in the location on Briarwood Lane. Organizers of the event ask you show up no more than a half hour before it begins and that you follow the route outlined by Bourbonnais...

No one was reportedly injured when a train hit a car on the tracks at Route 50 and Bourbonnais Parkway. Reports say the car got stuck on the tracks and the people in side the car were able to get out before it got hit. Authorities say there were also no injuries reported among the 133 passengers and crew on the train.

Thanksgiving may be a week away, but State and Local traffic safety programs start tomorrow. Bradley Public Safety Traffic Officer Megan Lanie has more The National Transportation Safety Administration estimates some 500 people will lose their lives in Thanksgiving Holiday traffic crashes this year.

A longtime foot soldier for Michael Madigan is testifying against him in the former Illinois House Speaker's racketeering trial. Ed Moody testified yesterday that Madigan arranged for him to receive a consulting contract from ComEd worth over 354-thousand-dollars without doing any work for the utility. Instead, he wa...

A group is attempting to take action against an Illinois law that requires mail-in ballots to be counted for 14 days after Election Day. In a filing this week, the organization Judicial Watch asked the US Supreme Court to reverse federal court rulings that upheld the law. The request comes less than a month after a f...

The Iroquois West School District has its next Superintendent. Longtime area educator and current principal at Watseka Community High School, Trent Eshleman has been named to lead the district. His first day on the job will be July 1st. On the district's Facebook page Eshleman says he's excited to join the Iroquois ...

Two Streator men have been arrested in connection with a burglary in rural Cornell, located just north of Paxton on Rt. 23 in Livingston County. Livingston County Sheriff's police say security video obtained during the investigation led to the arrest of Christopher L. Martinez and Anthony J. Preidis. Preidis is charge...

Grundy County Sheriff's police arrested a Chicago man over the weekend after he was involved in a police chase that began in the Joliet area on I-55. 32 year old Tyrees Cole was arrested when deputies deployed spike strips to bring the chase to an end. Nobody was hurt. Police do not say why he was running from autho...

Kankakee City police are investigating a burglary to an unoccupied home in the 900 block of North Schuyler Tuesday. The owner tells police he was at the home until 1 Tuesday morning preparing the home for rental. When he returned Tuesday afternoon he found a basement window had been broken out and a box of copper pip...

Bradley police are remembering one of their own who died in the line of duty 27 years ago Wednesday. Sgt. Wilford Lewis was assisting Illinois state police at an early morning crash site on I-57 at exit 315 and was struck while standing on the side of the road by a driver who later said they were distracted by the eme...