After her brother drowned at a dam in rural Wilmington in 2000, Kathryn Pietraszek thought officials would do something to end the series of deaths there. Her brother, Andrew Antolak, had been ...

Cardenas claims to have evidence of 22 drownings and 23 rescues at the dam since 1982. The suit also names the nearby Van Duyne Motel, Kankakee River Canoe Rentals and the businesses' operator ...

The city of Wilmington is being taken to court for a river dam it owns that some have called “a drowning machine.” Since 1982, 21 people have drowned and another 20 have been rescued at the ...

Elizabeth R. Larson, 35, was in an "inflatable water craft" that went over the dam in the Kankakee River, near Park Street and Barnes Drive.