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Angelo honored by Arthritis Foundation

For Phil Angelo s three-and-a-half decades of selfless contribution, he was named the Volunteer of the Year for the Arthritis Foundation in the State of Illinois. The Kankakee resident was presented

Village Square being sold?

At Tuesday s Bradley Planning & Zoning Commission meeting, board members unanimously gave final approval to Langham Creek Partners, of West Lake Village, Calif., the property s owner since 2015, for its

Kankakee Dist.111's transition program finds new home in Meadowview

The site, which will also feature a manufacturing area where students can learn job development skills, is being called the Kankakee Community Independent Living and Development Center.

Goodbye and thank you

Arthur Valade, Kankakee's veteran watchmaker

In the days before digital timepieces, watch repair was a highly skilled job. Working with tiny gears and springs required good eyesight, steady hands and meticulous attention to detail. Amazingly, at age 80, when he retired after 67 years in the jewelry business, Kankakee watchmaker Arthur Valade still possessed all those qualities. He began working at age 13, when he was hired in 1886 by A.H. Pike, owner of a jewelry store on Court Street in downtown Kankakee. “When I started work, there were no electric lights, no street cars, no paved streets,” he told a Kankakee Daily Journal reporter interviewing him in 1946 for an article on his 60th anniversary in the jewelry business. “About all there was on Court Street in addition to stores was mud and board walks.”