Shane Saathoff

Shane has been an active writer for more than two decades, focusing on local news and events throughout the region. A native of Bourbonnais, IL, and alumnus of Olivet Nazarene University, he spent over a decade working in radio newsrooms before transitioning full-time to print and digital journalism. A passionate historian and self-described science and tech geek, Shane is also a lifelong Michigan Wolverines fan, a bit of a baseball junkie, and enjoys building LEGO sets with his nephew in his downtime.

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Friendship Festival Full Schedule now available

The Bourbonnais Friendship Festival has released the full schedule for this week's coming activities for the annual summer celebration.

On the Bright Side: Meteors

There’s a 99.98 (1 in 7,300) percent chance a 164-foot asteroid won’t hit the earth in September. As sad as that may seem, there are researchers around the globe that live for chasing meteors. I'm just not one of them.

Going Boldly – Papi’s Pizza leads Northfield Square Mall Food Court reboot

Papi’s takes over the previously occupied spot of Sbarro Pizza, already equipped with a brick stone pizza oven. Lind says the location operates as a limited menu option for dedicated customers of the Kankakee location living in the Bradley, Bourbonnais, Manteno community and does offer delivery.

Gaming returns to Northfield Square

The stars of Fortnight, Mario Kart and so many other popular games will soon be conveniently located across from KanSai Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse and Sushi Bar at Northfield Square Mall.

A World Without Batman

These days a popular thing for a younger audience to do is to knock physical games, which is ironic considering how elegant they use to be, but news in recent days reminds us that you don’t really own digital games. You just practice leasing it.

Barnes & Noble lives on as UK bookstore owners purchases company

600+ Barnes & Nobel stores, offering everything from coffee to books to various pop culture related merchandising options had new life injected today as Elliott Management Corp. purchases the company for $476 million dollars.