KANKAKEE, Ill. (WLS) -- A 7-year-old girl was killed after a fire tore through a home in Kankakee Saturday morning. Neighbor Maria Garcia ran to the home when she heard there was a fire. She and her ...

KANKAKEE, Ill. (WLS) -- Two young boys who were injured in a fire in Kankakee earlier this week have died. Ju'shaun Ward, 2, and Justice Ward, 4, were sleeping when the fire broke out in their ...

MOMENCE, Ill. (WCIA) — A chocolate factory in Kankakee County was gutted after a large fire broke out late Tuesday night. It happened at the Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation around 11 p.m., according to ...

Tragedy and heartbreak stuck a family Monday evening when a 6-year-old boy drowned after, authorities said, he fell into the Kankakee River. A relative of the young boy who died said he fell in after ...

MANTENO, Ill. — Charges have been filed against a Kankakee County man who authorities say allegedly attempted to set fire to a mobile home where the mother of his unborn child and her two-year-old son ...

A fire at Curtis Creek Dairy central digester is under investigation, according to Newton County emergency response personnel ...

KANKAKEE — In a quest to replace a 22-year-old Kankakee Fire Department ambulance, the department received the OK to purchase a model 12 years newer, but still very much used. At Monday’s Kankakee ...

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) -- A 29-year-old Kankakee man was charged with murder Tuesday in a trailer fire that killed his girlfriend's two young daughters. Timothy O'Connell faces two counts of first-degree ...