Country Herald is a community news platform for Kankakee, Iroquois, and Will County. Covering breaking local news, sports, ...

Country Herald is a community news platform for Kankakee, Iroquois, and Will County. Covering breaking local news, sports, ...

Rantoul was a man of great accomplishment, having graduated from Harvard, performed as an accomplished lawyer interested in ...

Shortly after George Floyd was murdered blocks from her home in Minneapolis, Mihesha Gibbs-Lumpkins decided to return to ...

Early Friday morning, a deputy in Edgar County shot a man armed with a rifle after a confrontation, according to a Facebook post by ...

Some local officials see President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations as an answer to their budget woes.

There was a brief standoff between St. Clair County deputies and the alleged shooter before an arrest was made. Deputies from ...

A mass shooting in Kankakee, shootings in Chicago, a truck attack in New Orleans. Fighting to curb violence in 2025 will be ...

A 17-year-old has been charged with murder in connection with a deadly stabbing in Kewanee on Thursday. Dareon S. Baker, of Kewanee, appeared in Henry County Circuit Court on counts of first-degree ...

A major winter storm is slated to wallop a large swath of the U.S., dumping heavy snow from Kansas to Maryland and bringing some regions what could be the heaviest snowfall in more than a decade.

By Todd Feurer, Shardaa Gray, Sara Machi Click here for updates on this story KANKAKEE, Illinois (WBBM) — Two brothers were killed and five other people were wounded in a mass shooting at a New Year’s ...

Illinois is a popular wintering spot for migrating bald eagles that are attracted by the waterways that line DuPage and Will ...