Bourbonnais News

" Larry Chouinard of Kankakee was arrested last week by Bradley police after the Illinois Attorney General unsealed a 19-count indictment alleging that Chouinard engaged in a 5- year scheme through which he collected and personally used tens of thousands of dollars intended for insurance premiums, including payments from Bourbonnais Township and 13 ...

About 25,000 fewer attended this year than last. a PONY baseball is an acronym for Protecting Our Nation's Youth.

Tyler Clark, a two-time NCAA qualifier for Iowa State, demonstrates some moves during Friday's session of the Amy Brothers Wrestling Camp at PHS.

Four former central Illinois high school wrestlers have been indicted in the alleged sexual assault of a teammate.

An investment group has acquired a former Bennigan's Restaurant at 95th Street and Ridgeland Avenue to be converted into a Tilted Kilt Pub and Eatery.

Officials at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill., are fully aware the Bears have had discussions with Lewis University about relocating training camp.

David McAloon, a self-described Reagan Republican conservative from Bourbonnais, has announced his candidacy to run for the 11th District's Congressional seat now occupied by U.S. Rep.

Now that the Bears have gotten negotiations done with all of their draft picks they can get to business of a different sort--considering a new training camp home.

The Riverside Ambulatory Surgery Center is a place where you will be treated like family.

The Joliet Area Historical Museum celebrated Barbie's five-decade reign as the world's most popular fashion doll on March 29 with Fifty Fabulous Years of Barbie, an enormously popular event.

Beginning July 1, the Almond Campus of Warren Township High School will have a new assistant principal.

A resolution was passed at the May 18 Manteno Village Board meeting to name a new amphitheatre at the future local 67-acre park after village trustee Noel Burke and his wife, Tammy.

Jami Dewey received the Bachelor of Science degree from Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, Illinois, in the school's 96th annual commencement, Saturday, May 9, at 9:30 a.m. She is one of approximately 1,450 students to earn associate, baccalaureate, or master's degrees this year at Olivet.

All eyes will be on Jay Cutler when the Bears begin the next phase of the offseason program with OTA's on Wednesday at Halas Hall.

David McAloon of Bourbonnais, IL has announced his intent to run for a seat in the 11th Congressional District.

Steve Olson and Paul Conzen of Lake in the Hills are an Internet sensation. As in, they've reached more than 300,000 viewers, and counting.

Chicago's Gay Pride Parade this year will take place on Sunday, June 28, beginning at noon.

For more than 20 years, pharmacists have pasted "DO NOT TAKE WITH GRAPEFRUIT JUICE" warnings on various pill bottles because it can interfere with the enzymes that break down and eliminate certain drugs.

In a small, early clinical trial, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have found that combining eight ounces of grapefruit juice with the drug rapamycin can increase drug levels, allowing lower doses of the drug to be given.

Police in Champaign and Urbana say a Kankakee County man accused of vehicular theft has admitted drinking heavily and taking drugs before he took off on what must have been one of the slower joyrides on record.