Lee Provost

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.

Developers of a $14-$15-million, four-story, 73-suite hotel will soon begin construction in Bradley at the location immediately southeast of the Holiday Inn Express.

The lone Illinois recipient of the 100 Top Hospitals in the nation, Riverside Healthcare is ready for what the community may need in the days of regional medical transition.

The Illinois Department of Public Health could soon be suspending St. Mary's Hospital's Level II emergency designation due to the loss of its OB doctor.

Through two weekends of youth baseball, the 315 Sports Park is attracting large crowds even as only half of complex is ready for game action.

A small group of Saint Mary's Hospital patients, staff and a doctor participated in a protest rally Saturday regarding the pending cutback of labor and delivery services at the Kankakee hospital.

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