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Festivalgoers enjoyed the second night of the 50th anniversary of the Bourbonnais Friendship Festival on Thursday, June 26, 2025. The festivities continue through Sunday at Bourbonnais' community campus, The Grove.
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Children excitedly explored the Exploration Station's new Storybook Forest exhibit on Monday, June 23, 2025, during its grand opening event.
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Parade participants and spectators kicked off the Juneteenth Freedom Festival weekend celebration on Saturday, June 21, 2025.
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T and A Bucking Bulls partnered with Rugged Cross Cattle Company to hold the inaugural Starved Rock Rodeo on Saturday, June 22, 2025 at the LaSalle Speedway & Event Center in La Salle. The event featured bull riding, barrel racing, mutton busting food vendors, apparel, rodeo attire, and much more. Riders from Northern Illinois and throughout the Midwest competed in the rodeo.
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The annual Relay for Life of Kankakee County celebrated 30 years of cancer advocacy as the annual event returned Saturday, June 14, 2025, at the new community campus in Bourbonnais, The Grove.
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Bike lanes and pedestrian crossings join the freshly-painted lines on Hobbie Avenue in Kankakee as seen on Monday. The long-awaited reopening of the road, which has been closed since Oct. 2023 for a $10 million rebuild, will occur following the 10 a.m. Juneteenth Parade on Saturday, June 21, 2025. For the full story, see tomorrow's Daily Journal.
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Kankakee native and Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jonathan Ward returned home for his sixth annual football camp at Kankakee High School Saturday, June 14, 2025, one that included 7-on-7 flag football action for the first time.
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Approximately 500 people flooded the sidewalks of the Kankakee County Courthouse for a ‘No Kings’ rally in Kankakee on Saturday, June 14, 2025, to protest actions by President Donald Trump. For the story, see Monday's edition of the Daily Journal.
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Some of the best late model and modified racers from around the country flocked to Kankakee for the DIRTcar Summer Nationals at Kankakee County Speedway Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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