Kankakee County News

At the halfway point of Kane County's budget year, a handful of offices already have spent more than half their budgets for the fiscal year.

WOODSTOCK – It's been 10 years since McHenry County commissioned a study on starting a specialized court designed to help drug addicts get clean and stay out of prison.

Showers and thunderstorms start to light the area Thursday morning. Most of the showers are south of the city, heading towards Will and Kankakee counties, but Chicago will see a few scattered showers throughout the morning.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN KANKAKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS... EAST CENTRAL WILL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS... NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA... LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA... NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA... PORTER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA... * ...

When a traffic crash cuts short a teenager's life, we can only ask: Why? That question will follow the young victim's friends and loved ones for a lifetime.

Jun 11, 2009 6:31 am US/Central As much as six inches of rain fell in some parts of the Chicago area overnight, and a flash flood warning has been placed in effect for several counties.

The new "Post-9/11 GI Bill" is the best veterans benefits package for job training and higher education since the 1950s, veterans advocates said at a meeting in Kankakee Saturday with U.S. Rep.

This year, employment remains markedly lower than it was last year, however, unemployment in five of The Daily Journal's nearby counties was lower in April than in March.

A firefighter from Manteno has been charged with indecent solicitation of a child over the Internet after allegedly trying to arrange a sexual encounter with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

On March 27, Beecher Village President Paul Lohmann wrote a letter to IDOT regarding the condition of Route 1 from Goodenow Road to the Kankakee County Line.

The home is located in a lot donated by the City of Kankakee and the three-bedroom home goes to Dianne Summerville.

A 31-year-old Decatur man has been indicted in the beating death of a homeless man in a Kankakee park.

The Kankakee County Health Department is confirming the first case of the H1N1 influenza in Kankakee County.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED AN * URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR RAPID RIVER RISES IN... LIVINGSTON COUNTY... FORD COUNTY... IROQUOIS COUNTY... SOUTHERN LA SALLE... COOK COUNTY... DUPAGE COUNTY... GRUNDY COUNTY... KANKAKEE COUNTY... SOUTHERN KENDALL... WILL COUNTY... BENTON COUNTY... JASPER COUNTY... LAKE COUNTY IN ...

When its coal deposits played out after 13 years, so did Cardiff, a small boom town east of Dwight in northeast Livingston County.

KANKAKEE, Ill. - Creating job opportunities in Kankakee County may likely depend on how successful officials are in creating intermodal developments here.

The village board voted to receive and place on file the 2009-2010 operating budget at the April 6 village board meeting.

It's turkey time in Illinois. More than you can ever say. These two were part of a group of at least five hens and two gobblers wandering along a railroad in the middle of a Kankakee County town Thursday evening.

A delay requested by an Illinois county official for a bi-state bridge project might benefit the Kankakee Valley Historical Society.

Those of us who have advocated for long-range planning in state government certainly did not contemplate the kind in which Rod Blagojevich allegedly engaged.