Shane Saathoff

An active writer for two decades, Shane's focuses on local news and events throughout the area, Shane is an active historian, science nerd, and tech geek. Shane is a native of Bourbonnais, IL, and alumni of Olivet Nazarene University.

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Going Boldly – Papi’s Pizza leads Northfield Square Mall Food Court reboot

Papi’s takes over the previously occupied spot of Sbarro Pizza, already equipped with a brick stone pizza oven. Lind says the location operates as a limited menu option for dedicated customers of the Kankakee location living in the Bradley, Bourbonnais, Manteno community and does offer delivery.

Gaming returns to Northfield Square

The stars of Fortnight, Mario Kart and so many other popular games will soon be conveniently located across from KanSai Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse and Sushi Bar at Northfield Square Mall.

A World Without Batman

These days a popular thing for a younger audience to do is to knock physical games, which is ironic considering how elegant they use to be, but news in recent days reminds us that you don’t really own digital games. You just practice leasing it.

Barnes & Noble lives on as UK bookstore owners purchases company

600+ Barnes & Nobel stores, offering everything from coffee to books to various pop culture related merchandising options had new life injected today as Elliott Management Corp. purchases the company for $476 million dollars.

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a new animated Netflix Series, coming in 2020

A new animated series produced by Netflix is set to come to the digital platform sometime in 2020, Universal announced today by means of their Jurassic World Instagram account.

Kankakee Vehicle Stickers now available for purchase at City Hall

Would you rather pay $35 for a parking sticker, or $70? That’s the question residents of the City of Kankakee need ask themselves today...