Here are some videos of Kankakee, Illinois on a spring day in 2015:
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Kankakee High School Students Returning Gazebo to Letterman Featured on This American Life
After Kankakee was listed as the worst metropolitian area to live by the Places Rated Almanac, talk show host David Letterman picked up the story, airing a "Top Ten List" of sarcastic ways to market Kankakee. Letterman continued the "joke", sending Kankakee two gazebos to "help".
When a group of Kankakee High School students heard the story, they decided the gazebos and the negativity attached to them were not something they wanted to see in their city. The students tore down a gazebo and used the wood to build a rocking chair for David Letterman.
This American Life, a radio show produced by Chicago's Public Radio Station WBEZ, interviewed the students for a story on the program's 554th Episode: Not It!. This American Life Producer Brian Reed spoke with the students in Kankakee, then spent time in Bradley and Bourbonnais, exploring the attitudes toward Kankakee of people in the more surburban towns. It's fascinating to hear an outsider's take on Kankakee, both the more racially diverse city and the less racially diverse county.
You can find the This American Life featuring Kankakee here.
When a group of Kankakee High School students heard the story, they decided the gazebos and the negativity attached to them were not something they wanted to see in their city. The students tore down a gazebo and used the wood to build a rocking chair for David Letterman.
This American Life, a radio show produced by Chicago's Public Radio Station WBEZ, interviewed the students for a story on the program's 554th Episode: Not It!. This American Life Producer Brian Reed spoke with the students in Kankakee, then spent time in Bradley and Bourbonnais, exploring the attitudes toward Kankakee of people in the more surburban towns. It's fascinating to hear an outsider's take on Kankakee, both the more racially diverse city and the less racially diverse county.
You can find the This American Life featuring Kankakee here.
Monday, April 6, 2015
Manteno School Board Election Results 2015
To view results from the April 7, 2015 election for the Manteno School Board, go here for Kankakee County and here for Will County.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Hopkins Park Election Results 2015
To view results from the April 7, 2015 election in Hopkins Park, Illinois, go here.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Buckingham Election Results 2015
To view results from the April 7, 2015 election in Buckingham, Illinois, go here.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Bradley Election Results 2015
To view results from the April 7, 2015 election in Bradley, Illinois, go here.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Bourbonnais Election Results 2015
To view results from the April 7, 2015 election in Bourbonnais, Illinois, go here.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Aroma Park Election Results 2015
To view results from the April 7, 2015 election in Aroma Park, go here.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Kankakee County Election Results 2015
To view results from the April 7, 2015 election in Kankakee County, go here.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
Results will begin to post after polls close.
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