Manteno Fire Department personnel handled a traffic crash and a house fire within a half hour of each other Friday evening. In a press release, Manteno Community Fire Protection District Fire Chief Rick Petersen says firefighters were called to a motorcycle crash on Route 45 at 10-thousand-North Road just after 4:30 Fr...

Beecher Police have issued a "community safety notice" after they got several reports over the weekend of teenagers ringing doorbells and kicking or banging on doors at homes throughout the community then running away. In a Facebook post, Beecher Police say while it may be intended as a prank, the behavior ca...

The Wilmington Fire Protection District Sunday afternoon answered several calls for a reported gas leak. In a Facebook post, Wilmington Fire say they believe the odor was not a natural gas leak, but instead was coming from the ExxonMobile refinery in Joliet. They added there were no air quality issues in Wilmington tha...

Gas prices stayed pretty stable over the weekend. Triple-A says the average cost for a gallon of regular no-lead gas is four-dollars-48 cents across the Land of Lincoln. That's actually down a penny overnight, but some 20 cents more expensive than the cost one week ago. Gas in the Kankakee area is running four-dollars-...