Kankakee County News

A home-invading Christmas elf has been identified: She's a teenage prankster. Police in the Kankakee County town of Herscher had been puzzling over who decked the halls of an apartment while a family was away last weekend.

Police in the Kankakee County town of Herscher say they are looking for someone who might be described as a home-invading Christmas elf.

Two Cook County state's attorney's investigators have been fired after a prisoner escaped from their custody - discipline that one of their attorneys is calling 'an overreaction.' Nicholas Argentine and Joseph D. Fallon were terminated in connection with the escape of bank robber Robert Maday on Sept.

Former Gov. George Ryan deserves to keep part of his state pension despite a 2006 conviction on corruption charges, his attorney told the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The Illinois Supreme Court will now decide whether George Ryan is left with no pension or collects nearly $60,000 annually for his years of government service that weren't tied to the corruption conviction that landed him in federal prison.

The Channahon Fire Protection District has purchased a sophisticated disinfecting device that will help combat the spread of viruses and bacteria, such as H1N1, MRSA, TB and more.

A parolee living in Kankakee County is charged in a shooting incident earlier this week.

Share + Nov 11, 2009 10:42 pm US/Central Reporting Mike Parker PEMBROKE, Ill. If you think the recession has hit hard where you live, consider the little Northern Illinois town where almost half the working age adults are out of work.

On a sunny fall morning, Frank Astrella went out the back door of his office and turned toward the courthouse.

A DVD focused on the Aug. 2 homecoming of Illinois National Guard Company C, 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry Regiment is now available for preorder.

Kankakee County Major Crimes Task Force was called in to assist the Kankakee County Sheriffs Department investigations division in an investigation that eventually led to the seizure of 33 firearms.

After a slow start, five barns have joined the McHenry County Historical Society's Quilted Barn program – and three others are in the works, said Nancy Fike, McHenry County Historical Society Executive Director.

Robert Maday, an "extremely armed and dangerous" convict who escaped as he was transported to a hearing on a criminal case, was captured on Friday around noon after getting into a crash in Rolling Meadows, Ill, ABC7.com reported.

Topics as diverse as the Civil War, Lincoln and religion, Paul Simon, and Chicago women await participants at the 11th annual Conference on Illinois History, scheduled for Oct.

Numerous area schools were placed on lockdown Friday after an escaped prisoner hijacked a car in Hoffman Estates and then robbed a bank in Bloomingdale.

Share + Sep 18, 2009 6:49 pm US/Central 1 of 1 An investigator for the Cook County state's attorney's office, wearing orange prisoner pants and no shoes, speaks with Rolling Meadows police and detectives in the northwest parking lot of Meijer on Golf Road on Thursday.

A prisoner overpowered two Cook County investigators bringing him to a hearing in Rolling Meadows this morning, seized their weapons and escaped, authorities said.

The cause of death of Diana Woods, of Bradley, will not be known until toxicology reports are completed, Kankakee County Coroner Bob Gessner said Saturday.

Grant Park has a new police chief, Tim Swanson. It was announced during the August 3 village board meeting.

HOPE, Ill. -- Faith, Hope and Charity and the greatest of these apparently is Hope.