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For the second time in about a month, the woman seeking to run in the April municipal election in Kankakee has withdrawn her name from consideration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