While the Kankakee East Riverwalk remains months away from completion, the city gained a $990,000 state OSLAD grant for the West Riverwalk.

Kankakee followed through on its pledge to alert residents of their responsibilities for living along the designated snow route.

Kankakee expanded its firefighting force by four on Monday.

Kankakee leadership has growing concerns regarding an East Court Street building in which the roof has collapsed.

The city of Kankakee will continue its curbside recycling program with contractor Republic Services, of Phoenix, Arizona.

Kankakee property values are once again on the rise, this time by $35 million, officials reported Monday.

It appears Kankakee's curbside recycling program will remain in place.

After Jan. 1, Kankakee will begin towing vehicles which remain in the city's designated snow route.

Enforcement of Kankakee's much-ignored snow route designations is set to be stepped up this winter.

There is a real possibility the longstanding curbside recycling program in Kankakee may soon be ending.

Kankakee Fire Department Deputy Chief Adam Heid will step away from the administrative post, a position he has held since June 2021.

The owner of Kankakee's latest restaurant addition, the New York City Deli, is targeting an April opening, however, much site work will first be in order.

Some five years after announcing plans to develop a Quik Trip fueling center in Kankakee, the project is set to begin.

Community fixture Dennis Baron may have recently retired, but he shows no sign of slowing down on his goal to strengthen the community.

One final piece to put the Kankakee Hydroelectric plant back in operation was put in place by the Kankakee City Council.

The Kankakee Police Department promotes Diaz to sergeant.

Having had its own overnight homeless shelter plan denied, Fortitude has come up with an alternative for the coming fall and winter months.

Fortitude Community Outreach leadership has no plans to have its bus shelter return for a third year.

A special Kankakee City Council meeting has been set for Thursday, Sept. 25.

By a 12-0 vote, the Kankakee City Council turned down a conditional use permit request by Fortitude Community Outreach to operate a homeless shelter.

The Kankakee City Council denied a conditional use permit request by Fortitude Community Outreach to operate a homeless shelter on East Court Street by a 12-0 vote on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.

A portion of Hobbie Avenue will hold the honorary street designation of Mayor Chasity Wells-Armstrong Avenue.

With Kankakee Mayor Chris Curtis casting the deciding vote, a 1st Ward gaming cafe was approved for North Entrance Avenue.

A move to have a permit for Fortitude Community Outreach to operate an overnight homeless shelter voted upon Tuesday failed to reach the floor and the matter will head to the Kankakee City Council on Sept. 15 for its vote.

With environmental issues cleared, construction work has been launched on Kankakee's East Riverwalk.

A proposed North Entrance Avenue gaming cafe came up snake eyes this week at the Kankakee Planning Board meeting.

Fortitude Community Outreach gained its needed initial approval, however, its next step will be an OK from the Kankakee City Council in September.

A Kankakee Planning Board hearing on Tuesday could play a significant role in determining the future of Fortitude Community Outreach's homelessness services in Kankakee.

A four-year contract between Kankakee firefighter and the Kankakee City Council has been approved.

The first hurdle was crossed for a nearly $10-million bond sale in Kankakee on Monday.

The Kankakee City Council passed the Fiscal Year 2026 budget ordinance during Monday’s meeting. Mayor Chris Curtis said the $113,640 projected budget surplus is in line with the past four years’ budgets.

An approximate $9.5-million bond sale is in Kankakee's future to deal with a variety of issues, chief among them a large investment into the rehab of many crumbling city streets.

At Tuesday's Kankakee County Board meeting, a vacancy was declared for the District 10 seat, recently held by Chris Tholen.

As anticipated, the Kankakee City Council OK'd the 1% grocery tax, which has been in place for many years through the state.

Following nearly seven years of discussions and plans, the J. Jeffers housing and business project appears ready to begin.

The $19-million Josh Jeffers' 47-unit downtown Kankakee market-rate apartment building is now moving forward as a Planned Unit Development.

After some two years of reconstruction, Hobbie Avenue, one of Kankakee's main thoroughfares, is nearing its reopening.

The 900 block of South Greenwood Avenue is being eyed for an honorary street designation to honor the late Gov. George Ryan.

Only moments after taking his mayoral oath of office, Kankakee Mayor Chris Curtis laid out lofty goals for his second term.

Final details regarding a development agreement for a Kankakee 3rd Ward project will go to the Economic Development Committee before a final Kankakee City Council vote in two weeks.

Kankakee residential and business properties sewer rates will increase 2%, while the industrial rates will rise 7% beginning May 1, the start of the new budget year.

The Kankakee City Council approved a $51K contract for a pair of holiday fireworks shows.

The anticipated final approval for the south Kankakee QuikTrip development did not make Tuesday’s agenda for the Kankakee City Council

For the second time in about a month, the woman seeking to run in the April municipal election in Kankakee has withdrawn her name from consideration

Deborah Ivy, 59, of 935 S. Wildwood Ave., filed nominating papers on Monday to run as an Independent candidate for the April 1 election

The yearly $49,500 subscription was unanimously approved at Monday’s Kankakee City Council meeting

The candidate who sought to challenge the incumbent Kankakee 5th Ward alderman in the April 1 municipal election was officially removed from the ballot