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Four people, including a 5-year-old child, died in a head-on crash Thursday night 2 miles east and south of Reddick in western Kankakee County. All four were pronounced dead at the scene, according to ...

Back in the summer of 2014, a botanist named Rachel Goad was on a canoe trip to see a very rare flower. One of the rarest on the continent, actually. It’s called the Kankakee mallow, and it’s native ...

Several witnesses have been identified in the shooting death of a 62-year-old man in Kankakee, police said Saturday. Authorities said at approximately 10:07 p.m. on Friday, officers with the Kankakee ...

Police in suburban Kankakee and Bradley are investigating what they believe were AI-generated robocalls that threatened multiple schools Monday morning. According to a press release, calls were placed ...

A Frank Lloyd Wright house in Kankakee has sold for the first time in nearly half a century, and the buyer plans an extensive restoration. “It’s a dream come true for me,” said Kevin Sullivan, who ...

DANVILLE, Ill. (WAND)–A Kankakee man was sentenced to 45 years in prison for his role in the shooting deaths of two Danville men in September of 2021. Gregory Burns, 26, was sentenced by Vermilion ...

Kankakee Sands, an 8,400-acre expanse of prairie and wetlands in northern Indiana, is adding accessible parking, viewing scopes and signs to help tell the history of the area and a new chapter about ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANKAKEE, Ill. (WGN) — A person of interest ...

(The Center Square) – Electric vehicle battery maker Gotion announced a year ago that it would transform a vacant Manteno, Illinois, Kmart distribution center into a $2 billion factory. Manteno ...