State | Kankakee County

In its first year of Illinois hospital ownership, Prime Healthcare touts $104 million of investment and saving 13,000 jobs.

March 17 marks the 2026 primary, where Kankakee County voters can pull a Democratic or Republican ballot to pick who appears on the ballot come November. All voters, partisan or not, can weigh in on referendum questions.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker got a first-hand look at the devastation in Aroma Park and vowed help to residents.

A hailstone reported in Kankakee during Tuesday evening’s severe storms could become the largest hailstone ever recorded in Illinois, according to the National Weather Service

A $1.5-billion expansion which could increase the CSL Behring workforce by 300-400 was announced by state and company officials today.

Bradley-Bourbonnais seniors Derek Otero and Calvin Kohl and Elmhurst resident Katie O'Neil, a 2018 York graduate, were the delegates from Special Olympics Illinois that met with members of congress and the senate for Special Olympics in Capitol Hill earlier this month.
Three Illinois governor candidates have committed to appear at a Saturday morning, January 24, breakfast forum at the Quality Inn in Bradley.

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly introduced articles of impeachment against the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, regarding self-dealing for personal benefit and obstruction of Congress. Kelly said Noem used her position to guide a federal contract to a firm operated by a friend

New legislation aims to increase transparency and safeguard victims in inmate releases

Brenda Stewart, a farm owner in Pembroke Township, received grant funding through the state. She told Capitol News Illinois she is most worried about the people who depend on her farm and the grant program to eat healthy

A pair of health care programs that benefit noncitizens far outstripped its original estimated price tag and cost the state of Illinois $1.6 billion through last summer, according to a new audit of the programs

Gov. JB Pritzker accused the Trump administration this week of continuing to withhold almost $1.9 billion from Illinois state agencies, nonprofits and small businesses
Gov. JB Pritzker will propose a statewide ban on cellphones in classroom during his combined State of the State/Budget address
Valentine's Day is the final day Illinoisans can vote on whether they want a new state flag.
Among multiple schemes, Madigan was accused of using his influence to pass legislation favorable to utility companies that doled out kickbacks, jobs and contracts to his loyalists
Organizations that provide tutoring, recreation and other after-school programs are calling on Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois State Board of Education to release $50 million that was included in this year’s budget to fund those programs
A federal judge on Friday issued a temporary retraining order that prohibits President Donald Trump’s administration from imposing a federal funding freeze, according to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office
Global nonprofit Point 27 recently honored fallen Illinois State Trooper Clay Carns who was struck and killed by a passing vehicle near Channahon as he was clearing debris from the highway on Dec. 23, 2024.


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