Maggie Johnson and Phillip Schamber, both of Manteno, were married at St. Rose Catholic Church in Kankakee on Nov. 9, 2024. 

Celebration for resident's 100th birthday.

Since 1989, Harold the Giraffe has visited local schools as the mascot of the Life Education Center‘s programs

Like many teenagers, Alexis “Lex” McCullough is hard to define

Since the summer of 2021, Bradley resident Rochelle Langlois has battled Stage 4 cancer everywhere from her lungs, spine, adrenal glands, brain, bone and liver

Alicia Kleinert’s 12-year-old son, Caleb, noticed that seniors sometimes need help, and he made a point of that observation to his mom.

For more than 16 years after he survived being shot 11 times while shopping with his then-girlfriend in Chicago, Derek Grant walked this earth trying to find his purpose in life

I see so many incredible people — many I’m lucky to call friends — doing things day in and day out to make this community stronger.

All those remembering John McCracken, the lifelong Kankakeean, businessman, river enthusiast and neighbor, said Kankakee ran to the very core of his body