Kankakee’s St. Mary’s Hospital Named to Forbes’ 2026 Top Hospitals List

St. Mary’s has earned a Five-Star Overall Distinction on Forbes Top Hospitals list.

The average housing, utility, health care and grocery costs, along with home and rental costs for living in Kankakee County is 85.2%, substantially less than the national average. 

If you and your employer have already experimented with a distributed team, you know that many of the major concerns around remote work — compromised productivity, camaraderie and accountability — were grossly overstated and easily checked. But the question of how to maintain a happy remote team — that takes a lot of care and intentionality.