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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:51 am
Crafters and resale marketers are invited to participate in the 35th annual Les Artisans Arts and Craft Show to be ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:50 am
The University of Illinois Extension's 201 Vegetable Growers School will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:49 am
The Who performed at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV Sunday night, and despite their status as classic rock legends, there ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:48 am
Sammy Williams and his wife, Melissa Contreras, were supposed to host a party Saturday. Instead, Williams is left to plan ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:47 am
Kathy Dearing might be setting some strict house rules if Aqua Illinois Inc. gets the green light to raise its ...
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The Lumber Yard baseball complex in Bourbonnais has a new name -- Diamond Point Park. And it's slated to open ...
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Late last month, while sitting in his office on the campus of the United States Olympic Committee’s headquarters in Colorado ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:42 am
Gov. Pat Quinn and the governors of Michigan and Wisconsin will meet today with President Barack Obama's chief science adviser ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:42 am
A police blotter item that ran Feb. 1 contained incorrect information. Illinois State Police didn't conduct an underage liquor sting ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:41 am
An approaching winter storm, expected to dump a foot of snow across portions of Will County and between 5 to ...
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Their routine didn't earn a trophy, but the Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School cheerleading squad was proud of its performance on ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:36 am
PRECINCT YES NO Artesia 88 178 Ash Grove 104 145 Ashkum 1 93 167 Ashkum 2 38 83 Beaver 63 ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:35 am
Iroquois County Sheriff Eldon Sprau has financial proposals to make to the county board on Tuesday to avoid layoffs in ...
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Feb. 08, 2010, 10:31 am
It is very likely that there will be a recount of last week's Iroquois County sales tax referendum vote, whether ...
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Look around when people pull out their football jerseys and T-shirts. Naturally, the Bears dominate the market, but you'll see ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:51 am
Governors State University has a wide variety of Black History Month activities -- from historical programs to a lecture by ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:50 am
KANKAKEE COUNTY Farm Bureau annual meeting The annual meeting of the Kankakee County Farm Bureau will be held Thursday, Feb. ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:50 am
Despite being told the county can not legally stop the construction of a proposed cell phone tower set to go ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:47 am
Thanks to the general primary we now have a smaller field of candidates to choose from in November. Possibly, ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:46 am
It's a week from Sunday, fellas. Yeah, you know ... Valentine's Day. Remember? A few years ago, I interviewed an ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:45 am
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin may think that the Illinois Democratic Party's embattled lieutenant governor candidate should bow out, but Kankakee ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:37 am
* Cleveland J. Parker, 40, St. Anne, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon. June 9, 2009. The defendant ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:37 am
Centennial Christian Church of Watseka just may surpass its goal to send $10,000 to a church it helps support in ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:06 am
Tyjuan Hagler can handle the NFL. The Kankakee native earned a Super Bowl ring with the Indianapolis Colts three years ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:05 am
As a child, Adam Andrzejewski remembers packing the things his family would send to friends and family in Communist-controlled Poland. ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:03 am
The owner of Wisteria Day Spa died Friday morning after her car struck a semitrailer on Illinois Route 50 in ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:02 am
Master Sgt. Janiece S. Hardy has retired from the U.S. Air Force after 20 years of honorable service. The former ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:02 am
MONDAY Community comes out to support injured deputy David Stukenborg knew he had friends but he didn't realize how ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 9:02 am
Almost nothing could compare to the relief that I felt when my wife and I walked out of H&R Block ...
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Adam Andrzejewski remembers the exact day when the idea of running for governor moved from dream to reality. "It was ...
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"Hey!" "What?" I said. With a big, almost childlike grin across her face, Ericka Schriefer squinted her eyes at me. ...
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Feb. 06, 2010, 8:47 am
Armed robbery A 14-year-old boy was arrested Thursday at 6:38 p.m. at Dollar General, 400 W. Walnut St., Watseka, and ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 5:07 pm
A Kankakee woman died Friday morning after her car struck a semi on Illinois Route 50 in Manteno. Manteno Police ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 11:21 am
Aqua Illinois, Inc. wants to increase water rates by 24 percent, according to a proposal it filed this week with ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 10:54 am
Illinois sits along the eastern edge of “Tornado Alley,” a broad corridor of the United States running from west Texas ...
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Recent failures of tornado warning sirens in Grant Park have raised safety concerns even as the spring tornado season looms ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 10:46 am
Republicans In local counties, Herscher native Adam Andrzejewski won Kankakee County with 2,641 votes, followed by Kirk Dillard, 1,160; Andy ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 10:45 am
* The cost of the new Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School addition was incorrect in a headline and article published in ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 10:39 am
Staff at a Will County women's prison and their union leaders say they aren't going out without a fight. And ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 10:39 am
Despite months of protests, opposition and public hearings, state officials plan to close the state's only women's minimum-security prison. Now, ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 10:36 am
International ink manufacturer Sun Chemical Corp. is busy developing expanded business plans for its plant on the southwest edge of ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 10:35 am
A prominent Kankakee businessman, his son and company pleaded not guilty Thursday to 109 charges after federal authorities accused them ...
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Feb. 05, 2010, 10:33 am
Aggravated domestic battery Jessie L. Newman, 21, of 81 St. Peters Drive, Bourbonnais, was arrested at 11:11 a.m. Monday, in ...
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The cause of a fire Thursday at Belson Steel Center Scrap, Inc. in Bradley remains under investigation, but caused significant ...
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For some, comfort zone may be a term that prompts pleasant thoughts, but it can also be an obstacle to ...
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People are often fearful or unwilling to step out of their comfort zone. That's especially true with race relations. But ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 1:16 pm
* Tyres L. Herron, 26, Chicago, disorderly conduct. May 16, 2008. The defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 ...
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The smell of "new" still lingers in the Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School addition. BBCHS officially opened its $12.3 million addition ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 11:13 am
CHICAGO — Trial lawyers are praising an Illinois Supreme Court ruling involving caps on some medical malpractice lawsuit awards. ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 11:05 am
Four Iroquois County sheriff's deputies and a corrections officer won't yet lose their jobs because the vote on the sales ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 11:04 am
Preliminary autopsy results released Wednesday show that a Bradley couple died this week in an apparent murder-suicide. Bradley residents Bobbie ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 11:03 am
I freely admit it: That was me heaping the biscuits and gravy on my plate at the benefit breakfast Sunday ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 11:02 am
With all 11,215 statewide precincts counted, only 406 votes separated the top Republican candidates for Illinois governor. State Sen. Bill ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 11:01 am
Family and friends of Kankakee County Sheriff's Deputy David Stukenborg had a goal to raise $30,000, or possibly even $35,000, ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 10:58 am
Today, we kick off the education page, a new weekly feature of The Daily Journal. It will appear each Thursday ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 10:57 am
In an unusual twist of traditional business practices, the Sun Belt is losing jobs to the Kankakee area. Ink manufacturer ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 10:55 am
Central Community Unit School District 4 With the state $500,000 behind in payments to Central Community Unit School District 4, ...
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Cedric Banks knew what he signed up for when he left Kankakee High School and accepted a ROTC scholarship at ...
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When the massive earthquake rocked Haiti three weeks ago, Abby Naranjo, Tiffany Ross, Grace Ouwenga and Allison Chenoweth felt they ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 10:51 am
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has confirmed five deaths in two separate incidents as a result of gas pedals ...
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Despite defective gas pedals on more than two dozen Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, which resulted in at least five deaths ...
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Feb. 04, 2010, 10:38 am
Attempted armed robbery Two men reported at 8:02 p.m. Monday that they were walking in the 700 block of East ...
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A close primary race among Democratic candidates for Will County Sheriff was too close for one of the candidates to ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:29 am
Nearly 57 percent of voters in Crete Township opposed the construction of the proposed third Chicagoland airport in northeast Will ...
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Monee businessman Adam Baumgartner defeated family farmer Judy Ogalla, of rural Monee, Tuesday for the Republican nomination for Illinois Senate ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:26 am
Attempted armed robbery Two men reported at 8:02 p.m. Monday that they were walking in the 700 block of East ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:25 am
Voters in Grundy County gave 84 percent approval Tuesday to the proposed sale of the county-owned nursing home building. The ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:24 am
Bourbonnais is going electronic. The village board approved a $38,743 bid for a document imaging project at the board's Monday ...
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Local issues pushed turnout in Iroquois County for Tuesday's primaries, with the number of voters showing up to the polls ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:22 am
Jamie Boyd, state's attorney for Kankakee County, recently released the following felony dispositions. The addresses and dates of birth associated ...
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A home rule proposal for Sammons Point was defeated on a 72-to-56 vote Tuesday. "The people have spoken" said Joe ...
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CHICAGO (AP) -- No sooner had Democrat Alexi Giannoulias accepted his party's nomination for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:19 am
Livingston County Deputy Sheriff Martin Meredith of Streator won the Republican nomination Tuesday to replace his boss, Sheriff Robert McCarty, ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:18 am
First term Ford County Sheriff Mark Doran won re-nomination in the Republican primary on Tuesday. Doran, 43, of Gibson City ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:18 am
CHICAGO -- An Illinois primary election that was supposed to set the stage for a high-stakes political showdown in President ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:14 am
U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson is looking into appealing the area's loss of federal housing rehabilitation funding through the Department of ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:12 am
Voters in the northern Livingston County townships of Nevada, Sunbury and Newtown showed their support Tuesday for continued construction of ...
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Iroquois County Clerk Lisa Fancher and County Treasurer Mindy Kuntz Hagan won nominations Tuesday in contested Republican primaries. Hagan, of ...
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Before Tuesday, the only experience 11th Congressional District Republican candidate Adam Kinzinger had was serving on the McLean County Board. ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 11:08 am
News coverage of schools is one of the ABCs of local newspapers and rightly so. Schools are among the most ...
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Iroquois County residents won’t know for another two weeks about whether a proposed special sales tax for public safety purposes ...
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Around 7:07 p.m. Tuesday, just minutes after the polls closed, Sammons Point Mayor Mike Watson scribbled down the final tally ...
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In an upset, Glenn Nixon unseated Kankakee County Board Vice Chairman Stephen Liehr by 22 votes in the Republican primary ...
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Feb. 03, 2010, 10:53 am
At 86 years old, Bobbie Karr didn't stop caring for the Bradley home he shared with his wife, Dorothy. He ...
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Even as election officials are still counting votes and trying to sort out who will be running for governor, local ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 3:07 pm
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp.’s car and truck sales fell 16 percent in January, a month when the automaker ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 12:15 pm
An elderly Bradley couple were both pronounced dead Monday night at a south suburban hospital after what police say may ...
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Local poll watchers are talking about two major issues today and neither involve the candidates on today's primary election ballots. ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 10:43 am
Motivational speaker Steve Birdine, the president/CEO of Affirmations In Action!, of Laurel, Md., will be the featured speaker at the ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 10:41 am
Jamie Boyd, State's Attorney for Kankakee County, recently released the following felony dispositions. The addresses and dates of birth associated ...
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A $10-million federal grant application that would have helped revitalize sagging Kankakee neighborhoods was rejected by U.S. Department of Housing ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 10:39 am
The Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School junior varsity and varsity boys' basketball games scheduled to take place tonight at Thornridge have ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 10:38 am
Investigators with the Tri County Auto Theft Task Force are asking for the public's help to catch the person or ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 10:37 am
Grandparents are wonderful. As a co-worker told me last week they give you unconditional love. Whereas our parents layer the ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 10:37 am
Aggravated battery A 21-year-old man reported at 4:01 a.m. Saturday that a man shot him in the right hand after ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 10:35 am
A documents snafu is being blamed for the latest delay in sentencing former Grant Park Police Chief Scott Fitts. Fitts ...
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Feb. 02, 2010, 10:35 am
Former Grant Park Police Lt. Thomas Fitts has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the village, citing President Fred ...
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