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.

Kankakee, IL – The administrative leaders of the City of Kankakee recently partnered with the Department of Continuing Education at Kankakee Community College for a customized strategic planning session. The session lasted the entire day and included department heads from the City and Environmental Services Utility (ESU).

Thursday was unofficially dubbed “Dude’s Day” at Chicagoland Speedway. That’s in part to the rare scene of worlds colliding from the world of Motorsports and Acting as NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr., motocross superstar Ryan Villopoto and Chicago Fire Actor Taylor Kinney spent the afternoon at Chicagoland Speedway doing pace car laps, hitting golf balls from four stories above the race track into the infield and rode pit bikes.

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, the international academic honor society for community college students, saw 57 local area students inducted during the spring 2019 semester. Students inducted must have a grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale.

Nominations are due Friday June 14, 2019 for the 2019 Neighborhood Hero Award Program sponsored by Project Acclaim and the City of Joliet. The program is designed to honor Joliet residents with outstanding yards or homes.

A new animated series produced by Netflix is set to come to the digital platform sometime in 2020, Universal announced today by means of their Jurassic World Instagram account.