Field concerns are the cause for the move of Slammers Fest, that was announced this past Spring, from Dupage Medical Group Field in Joliet to 350 Soundstage in Tinley Park.

Joyce M. Volkmann, age 60, of Kankakee, died Friday, July 26, 2019. A memorial visitation is from 2:00 PM until 5:00 PM, Saturday, August 3, 2019, at Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home in Kankakee.

If you’re like us, you probably spent a good majority of your July stuck inside, playing shelter to the elements while blasting the AC on full and lighting pumpkin candles to artificially recreate a pre-fall atmosphere in a full-on state of Summer shut-in syndrome…that is normal right?

Among them locally where the Herscher Tigers, Kankakee Eastside Bulldogs, Joliet Ravens, Joliet Steelers, Lockport Junior Porters, and Plainfield Junior Cats Youth Football teams, as well as a variety of non-profits like Wounded Warriors.

The Manteno Police Department announced this morning that beginning next month, to celebrate Manteno’s Sesquicentennial (1889-2019) some area officers will begin wearing new badges on their uniforms.

Angeac-Charente, a wine-growing village in southwestern France that has continued to produce various prehistoric gems over the years thanks to it’s humid, subtropical climate millions of years ago, is producing yet another exciting discovery. The latest discovery comes from a site in France, near Bordeaux, where scientists have unearthed a femur, is over 2 meters long and weighs over 880 pounds!