{"id":180980,"date":"2026-03-31T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180980\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:19:08","slug":"kankakee-public-librarys-newest-collection-features-items-recovered-from-ef-3-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180980\/","title":{"rendered":"Kankakee Public Library&#8217;s Newest Collection Features Items Recovered From EF-3 Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Kankakee Public Library is stepping up in a big way after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/cleanup-kankakee-county-ef-3-tornado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EF-3 tornado<\/a> tore through the county earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The library&#8217;s newest collection is technically on loan from neighbors known and unknown. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a whole pile here. I&#8217;ve tried to clean the dirt off when I can,&#8221; said Vicki Forquer. &#8220;Some are cleaner than others. I&#8217;ve found somebody&#8217;s driver&#8217;s license.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 31, 2026 The Kankakee Public Library is stepping up in a big way after an EF-3 tornado&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-180980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}