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U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger toured MorningStar Mission in Joliet on Friday and talked with staff about their concerns with two proposals that would limit charitable …...

Posted by Kristen Schorsch at 2:36 p.m. The political arm of the National Rifle Association today endorsed Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson in a hotly-contested southwest suburban congressional race. The gun rights group chose the freshman...

Community Consolidated School District 146 announced Monday that someone with a little district history will fill its superintendent position when current Superintendent Marion Hoyda retires …...

Frances E. Hooker passed away in peace on March 31, 2013, having had a full and complete life for 97 years. Born of Mary and Frederick Ebel in 1915 in Manteno, Ill., her early growing up years were in Manteno and Chicago, and she recollected with joy...

Not long after she came home to find her entire front yard raked by an anonymous Samaritan, Alisa Blanchette buckled her four children into the car and headed toward the McDonald's in Manteno. We're going to do something nice for someone else, she...

Not long after she came home to find her entire front yard raked by an anonymous Samaritan, Alisa Blanchette buckled her four children into the car and headed toward the McDonald's in Manteno. We're going to do something nice for someone else, she told...

Wheaton construction worker Ted Thilly spent Monday looking for some career stability after finding himself laid off twice in the past two years, most recently three months ago. "I'm getting a little desperate at this point," said Thilly, 55, who added...

A male employee in Manteno was shot this afternoon in a company warehouse and police were searching for the gunman who also is believed to be an employee, Kankakee County sheriff's officials said. Officials received a call about the shooting which they...

Click here for Steve Bertrand on Books. Steve has been keeping WGN listeners up to date since he joined the station in 1985. His first awards came for his coverage of the death of Mayor Harold Washington. He has since won several others for anchoring and...

Q: Growing up in Old Town back in the late 1950s and early 1960s meant numerous trips to the North Avenue beach and Lincoln Park Zoo, among other places, and eating cotton candy and hot dogs. I remember the hot dogs at Café Brauer at the zoo came with...

A beloved Manteno High School teacher was struck and killed by a car early Tuesday morning while he was jogging on a  Kankakee County road, officials said. Cory Blanchette, 37, who also served as a wrestling coach at the school, was in the southbound...

WASHINGTON — This week’s expected vote on a GOP plan to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending will be the biggest one yet for the huge freshman class that arrived in January, House Republican Bobby Schilling said today. Schilling, who is...