Kankakee County

Darius Sullivan, 25, of Bourbonnais, Ill. has a lengthy criminal record, and currently has multiple open cases in Kankakee County ranging from burglary to battery.

A police officer was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting Wednesday night at a hotel in south suburban Bradley, and law enforcement have launched a search for the gunman.

Brittani Bury, 31, of Kankakee has spent more than 200 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

A lawsuit filed by McHenry and Kankakee Counties to stop the implementation of the Illinois Way Forward Act was dismissed on Monday. 

The state's “Region 7” area, which covers southern Cook County, plus Will, Grundy, and Kankakee counties, had just eight ICU beds available as of Dec. 2.

The shootings happened at Tipsys' Tap in Berwyn and a bar on North Schuyler in Kankakee.

A Kankakee man was charged Thursday in connection with a shooting in Ford Heights.

The weather is going to be mild and dry again on Monday in the Chicago area, with a high in the 60's. But changes are ahead.

Colder weather does not really return until Friday, when Chicago's daily high temperature will only reach 44 degrees.

The National Weather Service said patchy frost is possible in outlying rural areas of Chicago suburbs on Friday night into Saturday morning.

Neelie Panozzo has chosen to fight the mandate, and is one of six nurses suing Riverside Healthcare in Kankakee, Illinois after being told she would be fired for not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Chicago area's first freeze usually occurs in October, but city and suburban low temperatures have remained 10º to 15º above normal, with no chance of a freeze in the next week.