Nearly nine months after scandal rocked the Kankakee Valley Park District, leading to the indictment of its top executive and the layoff of virtually its entire staff, appointed executive director Dayna J. Heitz admits righting the ship remains a major challenge.
Kankakee Community College's center in Watseka has a summer of learning planned, offering everything from improving English skills and learning mathematical equations to enhancing health care and talking in front of others.
U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) voted in favor of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on May 4 despite its flaws because it begins the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), he said recently, according to a press release from his office.
IKO Roofing has begun construction on a 15,000-square-foot addition to its manufacturing facility in Kankakee that will facilitate a production expansion creating between 10 and 15 jobs, according to the Economic Alliance of Kankakee County.