Bourbonnais News

The following is a round-up of area events being held in honor of Memorial Day. Services in Kankakee The Kankakee Veterans' Council will hold two Memorial Day services Monday.

"Quibble. Q-U-I-B-B-L-E. Quibble." After Dhruv Mehta spoke that word, his ticket to the Scripps National Spelling Bee was punched.

Aggravated battery Neil Bernsteen, 23, of 584 S. Chicago Ave., Kankakee, was arrested at 5:03 p.m. Tuesday by Kankakee police for aggravated battery after a stabbing in the 500 block of East River Street.

Terry Granger, principal at Maternity BVM Catholic School in Bourbonnais for the past 10 years, is graduating to high school -- again.

Gentlemen's Choice barbershop, a Kankakee institution at the corner of East River Street and South Harrison Avenue, may soon be only a memory.

A beautiful moment missed. A slacker redeemed. And a column in the making. Those were the conclusions reached after Sunday's experience.

For 55 years, Memorial Day has been "the" holiday on Don Goin's calendar. And Monday will be no exception for this 84-year-old Bourbonnais resident.

Chicago Lawn resident John Matuszewski turned 100 years old last Friday, May 18, and on Saturday his family hosted a party to celebrate.

A 23-year-old Bourbonnais man died Sunday morning in a single-car crash in Channahon.

More than 200 students, faculty and parents at Aquinas Catholic Academy took to the streets in Kankakee to benefit a part-time teacher seriously injured in a recent ATV accident.

Published in the May 12 edition It's hard to tell where Bradley ends and Bourbonnais begins.

An un-named Bourbonnais man died Sunday after his vehicle left Interstate 55 and landed under the bridge in a parking lot.

Aiden DiTola, 9, who fell to the bottom of ravine in Perry Farm Park while hiking with his Cub Scout group Saturday, died Sunday at Advocate Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn.

Amy Nickell, of Kankakee, brought Miley, a 7-year-old shih tzu mix, to the Dog Day Afternoon at Perry Farm Park Sunday.

A 12-year-old boy was airlifted from Perry Farm Park after suffering a serious head injury Saturday at Pause for Patriotism.

Oswego resident and Plank Junior High seventh-grader, Marissa Oakley, competed at the USAG Level 10 State Championship Meet in Bourbonnais in March of this year, where she clinched the firstA place All Around title, as well as placing firstA on Uneven Bars, secondA on Balance Beam and Vault, and thirdA on Floor Exercise.A Oakley's season continued ... (more)

For Marilyn Corlett, of Bourbonnais, her career is quite literally a labor of love, a manual labor of love.

Every day an estimated 160,000 students miss school out fear of attack or intimidation by their peers.

NEWS: Simple dream As a ward of the state, Samantha D'Aguanno lives on her own, at the Kankakee Salvation Army's homeless shelter.

Jarrod Cox, of Bourbonnais, still faces a wrongful death civil suit for more than $50,000 for the fatal drunk-driving crash that killed his friend, Jordan Jackson, in the fall of 2010.