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Stephen B. Small. Stephen Burrell Small (18 March 1947 – 2 September 1987) [1] was a prominent American businessman in Kankakee, Illinois. In 1987, he was kidnapped and held for ransom by Danny Edwards and Nancy Rish. The conditions of his confinement caused him to die of asphyxiation.
The murder of Megan Nicole Kanka (December 7, 1986 – July 29, 1994) occurred in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Seven-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by her neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas, after he lured her into his house; Timmendequas had previously been convicted of child molestation.
Imprisoned at. Pontiac Correctional Center. Larry William Eyler (December 21, 1952 – March 6, 1994) was an American serial killer who is believed to have murdered a minimum of twenty-one teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed in the Midwest between 1982 and 1984. [6] Convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection ...
Kankakee Torrent. Coordinates: 41°25′12″N 88°12′39″W. Sandstone cliff at Starved Rock State Park, carved by the force of the Kankakee Torrent some 19,000 years ago. The Kankakee Torrent was a catastrophic flood that occurred about 19,000 calibrated years ago [1] in the Midwestern United States. It resulted from a breach of moraines ...
May 25, 2024 at 2:44 PM. KANKAKEE, Ill. - A shooting near a banquet hall in Pembroke Township overnight left two people dead and three others injured, according to the Kankakee County Sheriff's ...
Mary K. O'Brien (born 1965), Illinois state legislator and judge, was born in Kankakee. Daniel H. Paddock (1852–1905), Illinois state representative and lawyer, lived in Kankakee. George Ryan (born 1934), 39th governor of Illinois; Samuel H. Shapiro (1907–1987), 34th Governor of Illinois, practiced law in Kankakee and died there at age 79
When the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities was abolished in 1909, the institute was reorganized and renamed Kankakee State Hospital, effective January 1, 1910. In 1917, the Department of Public Welfare assumed responsibility for the Kankakee State Hospital and retained control until the creation of the Department of Mental Health ...
Jamie Bernadette Watkins. December 14, 1978. Kankakee, Illinois, U.S. Occupation (s) Actress. Producer. Years active. 2007–present. Jamie Bernadette Watkins (born December 14, 1987) is an American actress and occasional producer.