Manteno News

Troy Trepanier, recognized as the automotive industry's premier custom car designer/builder/racer, will serve as the official Grand Marshal of the 2008 Woodward Dream Cruise, to be held Saturday, August 16, ...

Approximately 4,600 customers in Kankakee and Bradley were left without power this morning as a fast moving thunderstorm system roared across the area.

Sara Piolatto of Manteno near Kankakee has a year to think about where she will attend college.

" Faced with $1.4 billion in cuts to the proposed state budget this week, Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his veto pen skipped over the La Salle Veterans Home this week, making room to open an 80-bed expansion.

Thousands of acres that had been planted for production of turfgrass seed in the United States and Canada are now growing wheat, corn, canola and a variety of other food crops.

Tom Beno was in a foxhole during World War II when the man beside him disappeared.

Hogan Walker, with an office in Morris, announced that it purchased the John Deere dealership, Ehlers Lawn & Recreation, located in Elburn.

A Country Club Hills teen whose out-of-control van killed a Frankfort resident early Tuesday on Interstate 57 north of Manteno, was driving under the influence of drugs, according to state police.

Hail-damaged lettuce on the McDonalds' farm. The stormy weather has been tough for area vegetable farmers.

According the Will County coroner's office, 46-year-old John Newbern was pronounced dead at the Lower Chippewa campgrounds, about three miles southeast of Wilmington, in unincorporated Custer Township.

Fitts is accused of shaking down "johns" for more than $400,000. - Manteno Police Chief Bernie Thompson said he was sadden and "a little disappointed" to read the indictment against his long-time friend and ...

As soon as the paperwork is in hand, the River Valley Metro bus system in Kankakee County will rolling buses to the Kankakee Wal Mart and to the warehouses in Manteno that employ hundreds.

Web exclusive: Grant Park Police Chief steps down, Village Board names brother interim chief Grant Park has a new interim police chief today with a very familiar name.

A longtime northeastern Illinois police chief is accused of taking bribes to drop charges against people accused of soliciting prostitutes.

The severe weather that rolled through the Chicago area Friday night produced some large hail and left thousands in without power.

Hundreds of northern Illinois residents were without power Saturday morning following a violent storm system, but the Chicago area got off easy compared with some areas downstate.

As of 4:30 a.m. Saturday, there were 9,300 power outages throughout the ComEd service area, which includes all of Northern Illinois as far west as the Galena area. The outages were concentrated in Rockford, where about 1,000 customers were without power, and Waukegan, where 700 were without power, ComEd officials said.

A tornado warning interrupted Illinois lawmakers Friday evening, sending them scurrying to the state Capitol basement as warning sirens blared and storms moved through central Illinois.

In northern Illinois, severe weather left thousands without power, knocked a semitrailer from a highway and lifted the roof from a building at Rockford's airport.

CBS 2 Meteorologist Steve Baskerville reports no more severe weather is expected, and the worst of the weather is over. Some lingering storms were still over Indiana Friday night, but they were headed eastward.

Anne determined nothing definite about the person's identity, when they died or how, investigators said.

Senate OKs its version of budget SPRINGFIELD The state budget dance took another step Friday as the Illinois Senate rolled out its version of spending priorities with the hope of soon reaching a deal with the ...

Posted 5/20/2008, 6:59AM, by Chris Breach Just when you thought it was safe to go into the chlorinated water, the federal government is telling us, no way.