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Hundreds gathered at St. John Paul II Catholic Church in Kankakee as the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage made a stop in Kankakee on Sunday, May 18, 2025.

Kankakee High School seniors who haven’t earned enough credits to graduate won’t be allowed to walk in Thursday’s commencement, a change in practice from years past when students close to the finish line were allowed to participate.

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, part of the 2025 St. Katharine Drexel Route, was greeted by more than 200 worshipers outside the St. John Paul II‘s Settles Center early Sunday evening in Kankakee to start the local celebration of the historic event.

Two people were taken to an area hospital following a two-vehicle crash on Illinois Route 115 near 2000S Road southwest of Kankakee Monday afternoon.

Two people on a jet ski survived after it went over the dam on the Kankakee River in Kankakee Sunday afternoon.

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

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