Jerry A. Kottkamp, 59, of Chenoa, formerly of Watseka, died Wednesday (Feb. 25, 2009) at OSF St. James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac.
Donald Merle Sweeney, 84, of Chebanse, passed away Tuesday (Feb. 24, 2009).
Bernice W. Gergen, 93, of Granite City, and grandmother of area residents, died Thursday (Feb. 26, 2009) at the Granite City Nursing & Rehab.
Bourbonnais police are searching for an unidentified man who allegedly robbed the Bell Financial Community Credit Union earlier this afternoon.
Police are on the scene of a reported bank robbery at the Bell Financial Credit Union in Bourbonnais.
Police confirmed the robbery took place at 2:50 p.m. at the branch on Armour Road at Tomagene Drive.
No further details were immediately available.
Colleen Legge will be named the new superintendent of Kankakee School District 111 at a special school board meeting tonight.
Legge, who has been working in education for more than three decades, is currently Jersey Community Unit School District 100 superintendent. The board president there, John Copley, said Legge told district officials she intends to take the superintendent’s job in Kankakee.
SPRINGFIELD — Despite a budget deficit of $9 billion or more, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he’ll soon reopen seven closed state parks.
Quinn’s predecessor, Rod Blagojevich, closed those parks last fall in a budget-cutting move.
But during a news conference at the state Department of Natural Resources in Springfield on Thursday, Quinn called Blagojevich’s decision “a false economy.”
Quinn says the state parks are important for Illinois tourism, particularly when the economy is bad and people can’t afford to go elsewhere on vacation.
He didn’t say how much reopening the parks would cost or where he planned to get the cash.
The sites involved are: Castle Rock State Park; Lowden State Park; Illini State Park; Hidden Springs State Forest; Moraine View State Park; Weldon Springs State Park and Wolf Creek State Park.
Thomas B. Dillon Jr., 64, of St. Anne, formerly of Seneca, died Tuesday (Feb. 24, 2009) in Kankakee.
Carl E. Lang, 63, of rural Pontiac, and son of a Chatsworth resident, died Tuesday (Feb. 24, 2009) at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington.
Visitation for James Edward Shellie, 84, of Bourbonnais, will be from 11 a.m. Friday until the 11:30 a.m. services at Lax Mortuary in Kankakee.
