Today, it's called Beckman Park, the home of the Little League in Kankakee. Across Cobb Boulevard is the Kankakee Boat Club. Years ago, from 1894 on, the area was "Electric Park." The park held a ...

located in the 1600 block of Cobb Boulevard. SkyFOX was over the scene where officers could be seen searching the river adjacent to the park, which is just south of the downtown Kankakee area.

Kankakee police and fire were called to Beckmam Park on Cobb Boulevard a little after 3 p.m. for a report of a boy who had gone into the river, according to Kankakee Mayor Christopher Curtis.

So we sent them not one, but two gazebos for the center of town [one went to Cobb Park, the other to the old train depot] so Kankakee would be ‘The City of Twin Gazebos’ and people by the ...

Kankakee police said officers responded to the crash in the 900-block of South Cobb Boulevard just after 1 a.m. A 2008 GMC Yukon had left the roadway and struck a tree, police said. The vehicle ...