Lee Provost

Prime Healthcare, the new owners of St. Mary's - Kankakee, said the hospital's pulmonology service continue, despite recent rumors to the contrary.

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

The second Bradley 315 Music Fest takes to the stage Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the east area of the Northfield Square mall parking lot.

Momence's Johnsonville Foods informs employees Monday morning the plant is closing, effective immediately, eliminating 274 jobs.

While the Patriot Hyundai has established its temporary home in Bourbonnais, construction of its new home in Bradley should begin later this year.

The $3.5-million investment by Bradley into the renovations of Lil's Park are complete as the park's splash pad opened Sunday.

Twelve part-time Bradley firefighters have filed a civil suit in federal court against the village for unpaid overtime wages.

Bradley hired its 12th full-time firefighter bringing the department to its budget level.

Bradley and the operator of the nearly 7,700-square-foot restaurant and bar complex at the Bradley 315 Sports Park have come to terms on a lease, with a targeted opening set for the week of June 23.

Five years after his death, the ashes of John Kirnbauer, a man of which little is known, are set to be placed in the Kankakee Memorial Gardens' Field of Honor during a Memorial Day ceremony at the cemetery.

Puerto Rico native Jose Campos is the new site leader at Bourbonnais Township's CSL Behring manufacturing plant.

Charging that Prime Healthcare breached its promise when it presented its case to acquire Ascension hospitals in Illinois, including St. Mary's Hospital, Kankakee County State's Attorney Jim Rowe is asking for a state investigation.

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.

After a 25-year tenure on the Kankakee Valley Forest Preserve Board, Mike Quigley recently retired from the five-member board.