"Rider Strong from 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙈𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 walked into the Public Library." - Hannah Swale

In 2019, actor Rider Strong—best known for playing Shawn Hunter on the 1990s sitcom Boy Meets World—and his brother Shiloh made an unannounced trip to Kankakee, Illinois. In this episode of This One Time in Kankakee, host Jake LaMore sits down with former library staff member Hannah Swale to recount the day two Hollywood filmmakers showed up in the third-floor Genealogy Room searching for local history, street maps, and Midwestern character for a potential film script.Featuring additional historical background from Veronica Featherston of the Kankakee County Museum, the episode details their visits to local research archives, their stop at Papi's Pizza Cafe (now Alvarado's Taqueria on Station Street), and the reaction across the community when word got out that Shawn Hunter was in town.Send us Fan MailWant more from the WVLI Podcast Network? Listen to the WVLI News Update with Rob West every weekday morning! Get the days local news from the greater Kankakee County, IL area in 10 minutes or less. Subscribe now on your preferred podcast platform: https://wvlinewsupdate.buzzsprout.comThe Voices You Trust, Beyond The Dial.