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Bourbonnais Police Chief Dave Morefield swore in the department’s 28th officer during Monday’s village board meeting.

The Kankakee Art League awarded an art award scholarship to Olivet Nazarene senior Ainsley Sasportas.

Alexis McCullough, 17, the former Miss Kankakee’s Teen 2025, was recently crowned Miss Chicago’s Teen 2026.

St. Anne made it eight straight wins in boys basketball, Coal City wrestling stayed perfect on the season and more in Thursday's Daily Journal roundup.

St. Anne made it eight straight wins in boys basketball, Coal City wrestling stayed perfect on the season and more in Thursday's Daily Journal roundup.

Manteno Board voted 3-2 against asking Gotion to file a CFIUS form.

Extreme cold entering the area on Friday has caused area schools to announce closures and e-learning days.

Kankakee Fire Department Capt. Christopher Salazar has been promoted to the position of deputy chief.

In this weekend’s “A Taylor-Made Life,” Taylor Leddin-McMaster talks about spending time with her nieces by gifting experiences rather than tangible items.

Raef, president and longtime member of the Bourbonnais Elementary School Board, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, at Riverside Medical Center. She was 69.

Manteno clinched its second straight 20-win season with a 57-52 road win over Watseka/Milford on Wednesday in a battle between two of the top Class 2A teams in the state.

The Kays earned a one-point win on the mats, Cissna Park stayed perfect in Vermilion Valley Conference girls basketball action and more in Wednesday's Daily Journal roundup.

A Kankakee man was charged with driving under the influence following a crash in Lil’s Park on Saturday.

Escape the cold and stock up on farmers’ market goods at the inaugural Kankakee Farmers’ Market winter market on Saturday, Jan. 24 from 8 a.m. to noon inside The Majestic in downtown Kankakee.

In this week's column, Toby Moore writes that the huge steps taken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. certainly should take away our own excuses to change our reality.

St. Rose of Lima Chapel will present "Nuns Acting Out," an interactive comedic musical, Saturday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m.

Luis Maldonado's full-time return to the basketball court as he nears and end of cancer treatments has given the Grant Park community reason to celebrate one of their own.

From a garbage company owner to founder of the Village of Sammons Point to Bradley mayor, Mike Watson has never shied away from an idea nor a challenge, no matter how wild some may think it is.

Alyssa Wollenzein exploded for 30 points, including an 11-0 run of her own to put Reed-Custer on top through three quarters, but host Beecher did just enough to top the Comets by a two-point margin on Tuesday.

Kankakee had four players score between 14 and 20 points in a conference win over Thornridge, its 11th in a row overall, and more in Tuesday's Daily Journal roundup.

Racism, the keynote speaker for the annual King Day program stated on Monday, was part of the very structure which helped fuel the U.S. economic might.

While prayer and unity were highlights of the annual King Day program at ONU, assistance to students also took the stage.

Three Illinois governor candidates have committed to appear at a Saturday morning, January 24, breakfast forum at the Quality Inn in Bradley.

The Kankakee East Riverwalk project is moving forward and the goal remains for a mid- to late-summer completion, officials said.

Bradley-Bourbonnais saw four girls wrestlers win individual titles on the way to a Rantoul Invite championship, Bishop McNamara's girls basketball team trounced Aurora Christian and more in Monday's Daily Journal roundup.