Kankakee Times

Watchdogs - Kankakee’s interim Police Chief resigns due to alleged database misuse

By LGIS News Service | Aug 21, 2018

Kankakee’s Interim Police Chief Price Dumas resigned on Aug. 17 after he allegedly used the Illinois State Police’s L.E.A.D.S. database to search for individuals who had been outspoken against Kankakee’s Mayor Chasity Wells-Armstrong.

Watchdogs responds to Kankakee’s incorrect memo on KMRA appointments

By LGIS News Service | Aug 14, 2018

After several articles about alleged disqualifications of six out of seven KMRA Directors, an attorney hired by the city of Kankakee wrote a memorandum on the subject. Watchdog responds to that memo in three parts.

From Prairie State Wire

Analysis: 40 percent of mortgages in Boone County considered ‘underwater’

By LGIS News Service | 6 years ago

Among Illinois counties, Boone, Montgomery and Bond had the highest percentage of property owners with mortgages who owe at least 25 percent more on their loans than their property is worth, according to an analysis by ATTOM Data Solutions looking at home equity at the end of the first quarter.

From Prairie State Wire

Population falling, but Illinois government leaders agree to spend, borrow more

By LGIS News Service | 6 years ago

Illinois state government leaders say they will spend a record $38.5 billion and borrow an estimated $11.5 billion over the next year, according to a fiscal year 2019 budget plan approved by Gov. Bruce Rauner.

Rep. Parkhurst declines to vote on anti-Trump legislation allowing measure to pass

By LGIS News Service | May 24, 2018

The Illinois House has passed a resolution rejecting President Donald Trump’s proposed infrastructure plan, with Rep. Lindsay Parkhurst (R-Kankakee) among 13 GOP members abstaining from voting on the issue.

From Prairie State Wire

Illegal immigrant lawyers, teachers couldn't be denied state licenses if bill becomes Illinois law

By LGIS News Service | 6 years ago

A bill pending in Springfield would prohibit the state from denying illegal aliens professional licenses to practice law, teach, or dispense prescription drugs.

From Prairie State Wire

Illinois House passes bill to require race and ethnicity-based quotas at state universities pension system

By LGIS News Service | 6 years ago

Illinoisans of Italian, Mexican, French and Eastern European descent could be in line for top management jobs with one of the state's largest public pension systems if a bill becomes law.

Watchdogs - Investigation into Limestone Township Highway Commissioner after allegations of fuel theft

By LGIS News Service | Apr 25, 2018

Limestone Township Highway Commissioner was allegedly caught fueling his private pickup with township fuel.

From Illinois Valley Times

Battling the establishment, conservative John McGlasson won re-election for committeeman

By LGIS News Service | 6 years ago

John McGlasson won re-election for the 16th Congressional District State Central Committeeman, but it was a hard battle against attacks from the establishment of his own Republican party.

From Prairie State Wire

Illinois House approves spending of $635K on three "lactation and wellness" rooms at State Capitol

By LGIS News Service | 6 years ago

The Illinois House of Representatives voted 91-1 Friday to spend $635,570 to build three "lactation and wellness" rooms at the state capitol in Springfield.

From Prairie State Wire

Rauner attempts conservative 'purge' of Illinois GOP leadership

By LGIS News Service | 6 years ago

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is publicly preaching party unity on the campaign trail. But behind the scenes, Rauner is quietly leading an effort to purge conservatives from the Illinois Republican State Central Committee, which governs the party and has elections this month.

From North Cook News

Illinois GOP Chairman Schneider’s Elgin car wash owes $21K in overdue property taxes

By LGIS News Service | 6 years ago

Illinois Republican Party Chairman and Cook County Commissioner Timothy O. Schneider (R-Bartlett) is president of an Elgin car wash that owes $21,448 in overdue property taxes from 2016, according to the Cook County Treasurer.

ECW Langlois considered for appointment to Kankakee Valley Airport Authority Commissioner

By LGIS News Service | Feb 27, 2018

The Kankakee County Executive Committee will hold a meeting today at 9:00 a.m. to discuss, in part, the appointme​​​​nt of Rende O. Langlois as a Commissioner to the Kankakee Valley Airport Authority.

Edgar County Watchdogs: Kankakee’s October 2017 Meeting Minutes have arrived

By LGIS News Service | Jan 3, 2018

Kankakee’s October 2017 Meeting Minutes have arrived

Tell us what you think

By LGIS News Service | Oct 9, 2017

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State tax hike means Harrisburg's richest get richer

By LGIS News Service | Jul 28, 2017

School’s out in the summertime. So when Harrisburg’s Mike and Angella Gauch decided they would drive to Springfield earlier this month, getting out of work wasn’t a concern.

State school funding bill would micromanage public school spending — down to the cent

By LGIS News Service | Jul 27, 2017

State bureaucrats will dictate how many teachers Illinois school districts must hire and how much to pay them if a school funding bill is signed into law this month.