Kankakee News

Published in The Daily Journal Feb. 4, 2012 Old Country Buffet gift card holders, driving to Tinley Park is not your only option for redeeming any unused dollars.

Editor's note: On Fridays, The Daily Journal's Lee Provost will be writing about business rumors, comings and goings and other noteworthy interests regarding the local economy.

Two items mentioned in a story about Riverside Medical Center's new Sleep Disorder Institute are in need of clarification.

FIRST PHOTO: The 157 students in the choir rehearse the song "Save Black History" in the auditorium at the Lincoln Cultural Center in Kankakee for the Black History Month program to be held on Sunday, Feb.

At the ripe old age of 9, Tyler McMahon Moss wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life.

The Illiana Expressway project, a highway that would connect Interstate 65 in Indiana to Interstate 55 near Joliet, has taken a giant step forward.

Aggravated battery Two teenagers were arrested for aggravated battery and theft after reportedly using a 2-by-4 board with a nail sticking out of it to beat a man before stealing his wallet.

Sarah Schmidt doesn't want people thinking Provena Fortin Villa Learning Center is just another typical day care center.

If you knew you could be the next president of the United States, would you live differently? That's the question that will be posed at this year's Black History Month program by nearly 200 students, teachers and members of the Kankakee School District 111 community.

The Kankakee City Council appears prepared to put the brakes on the tradition of collecting donations from vehicles sitting idle at intersections.

After nearly nine months of debate and two razor-thin vote margins, Kankakee rental property owners will now be charged for inspections and licensing of these dwellings.

We have seen all sorts of items become obsolete over the years. Hardly anybody listens to music on a cassette player any more.

The Riverside Medical Center will open the doors of its new Sleep Disorder Institute today in Bourbonnais.

Published in The Daily Journal Jan. 28, 2012 Brookmont Bowling Center, formerly known as Gala Lanes, has been a Kankakee staple as long as owner Al Messier can remember.

Being able to operate a steering wheel and gas pedal are not the only skills necessary to succeed as a bus driver.

Published in The Daily Journal Jan. 26, 2012 This winter's bouncing thermometer has done more than keep the weather forecaster busy.

Sam Borries, of rural Kankakee, has responded to some very nasty disasters in his 19 years as a cleanup man for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, Hurricane Rita in Texas in 2005, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in east Texas in 2003.

International Evangelist Billy Huddleston, an ordained elder and a commissioned evangelist in the Church of Nazarene, will speak at the 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Feb.

There were no promises made Wednesday, but there is new hope today for the restoration of a 127-year-old Momence landmark building.

Aggravated battery Heather Osborne, 27, of Watseka, was arrested at 1 a.m. Wednesday by Watseka police for aggravated battery following reports of a stabbing.