A bishop is asking three Catholic churches northeastern Illinois to merge in an effort to make up for a priest shortage. The request comes from the Joliet Diocese’s Bishop Daniel Conlon. It ...

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — Kankakee's St. John's United Church of Christ is no stranger to taking the road less traveled. The small, brown-brick church at the northwest corner of South Rutledge ...

Kankakee will soon become one of the first cities in America to have a Catholic parish named after St. John Paul II. On Sunday, a memorandum from the Rev. Santos "Sunny'' Castillo was circulated ...

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — A bishop is asking three Catholic churches northeastern Illinois to merge in an effort to make up for a priest shortage.