WILMINGTON, Ill. (CBS) – Residents along the Kankakee River in Will County, nearly 50 miles southwest of Chicago, are still dealing with the ice jam that poses a flooding risk to nearby properties.

WILMINGTON, Ill. (WLS) -- People living along the Kankakee River in suburban Wilmington have been watching nervously as a massive ice jam pushes closer to their homes on Tuesday. Some houses are ...

WILMINGTON, Ill. (CBS) -- Will County emergency officials are stepping up their efforts to break up ice jams on the Kankakee River – nearly 50 miles southwest of Chicago. The Will County Emergency ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Flash Flood Warning was downgraded Saturday in the Wilmington area after an ice jam broke on the Kankakee River Friday. Most ice jams have cleared between the city of Wilmington and ...

The body of a 6-year-old boy was recovered from the Kankakee River late Tuesday afternoon, hours after he fell into the river from a dock, according to officials. According to Kankakee mayor Chris ...

Work will begin soon on removing a major source of logjams by U.S. 41 on the Kankakee River near Schneider. About 30 narrowly spaced wooden supports from an abandoned Norfolk Southern Railroad bridge ...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY (WSBT) — The Kankakee River Basin commission went on a flood mitigation mission recently and installed a new river monitoring system. The monitor uses radar to detect and measure ...

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In a 1935 published report, Valparaiso University professor Alfred H. Meyer wrote that present-day Baum's Bridge is "the most historic spot along the Kankakee River in the marsh proper." The oldest ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANKAKEE, Ill. — An online petition launched ...