Kankakee

Are you from this area then? Did you grow up in the Chicago suburbs or surrounding areas or Chicago proper? I

was born in Kankakee, grew up in Mundelein and a few other places and currently reside in in West Chicago, lived for quite a few years in Chicago, northwest side, but currently live in West Chicago with my wife and my kids.

Yeah, and you also are a teacher, yeah?

Yeah, so I teach high school art, Elgin High School.

P.K. Wrigley, the owner of the Cubs, had a great idea called the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

was a league that was built around small towns, Dixon, Kankakee, Rockford, home of the Rockford Peaches.

Rigley, seen here from behind, wasn't just looking for good ballplayers.

He needed personalities who could attract paying fans.

Joliet is at 69.

Kankakee at 68 degrees.

I'll look here to show you that today we are expecting to make it to 75 degrees.

It's a nice warm day, but we do cool things off a little bit.

That's what has been happening lately.

and even the cold fronts that do move through don't drop us very far.

68 degrees right now at O'Hare, 68 at Midway, Waukegan's at 69, 72 degrees now in Kankakee, 72 in Joliet, Valparaiso's at 67.

Here's a look at the next 12 hours to show you that we are expecting to reach into the mid-70s later today.

60 at Northerly Island, 50 Valparaiso.

We're at 49 in Joliet, and it is 49 degrees Kankakee.

Today, this is just going to be a wonderful Wednesday.

A little bit on the windy side, but definitely warmer.

All right, it is Halloween week two for the bus stop forecast.

So maybe a light jacket out there this morning.

Right now, 49 Kankakee, 53 degrees.

Currently in Waukegan, 55 in Gary.

That's why we've gotten so warm today.

77 in Gary, 75 at the lakefront, 75 in Woodstock, 78 in Piatone and Juliet and 76 right now in Kankakee.

Look how clear it is for us now.

There are some clouds back to the west and there's a storm system up here across Minnesota.

just waiting for enough heating of the day to restart.

A thin line of showers possibly over east central Illinois near Kankakee, with them having the best chance by late in the afternoon on Thursday.

Friday night will provide an initial hit of rain for areas from the Quad Cities to northwest and northern parts of the state.

all in advance of the larger system that's slated to arrive on Halloween night.

That was part of the deal, and they paid for all of it, all the expenses.

And, of course, this is being fetted out in Kankakee as, like, this great experience for these kids and whatnot.

And I just, like, you know, I think we need to be very, very careful.

We need to be careful about this red-green alliance that you see coming on.

So, The Exorcist...

A station I was at in Kankakee, Illinois, we used to do a midnight movie on Halloween.

And we did The Exorcist one year.

And midnight movie on Halloween night.