DeKalb County News Briefs
August 1, 2018DeKALB AREA Fall youth baseball, softball signup to end Registration ends Aug. 6 for the DeKalb Park District’s fall youth co-op baseball and softball leagues. The leagues will play…
DeKALB AREA Fall youth baseball, softball signup to end Registration ends Aug. 6 for the DeKalb Park District’s fall youth co-op baseball and softball leagues. The leagues will play…
Aug. 2 DeKalb Farmers Market 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Van Buer Plaza, north Second and Locust streets, DeKalb Free The DeKalb Farmers Market features more than 30 vendors who sell locally-grown…
The recently-formed DeKalb County History Center has big plans as it preserves and shares the area’s past. The Center—created by a partnership between the Sycamore History Center…
COUNTY West Nile virus detected in a bird The West Nile virus has been found in a crow tested by The DeKalb County Health Department. The bird, found in Sycamore, is the first this…
Sycamore United Methodist Church offering a hand to low-income families in Sycamore this summer through a weekly food pantry and food drive. The Sycamore Food Pantry, which operates…
If Republican-leaning counties in Illinois have more referendums on the ballot this November than other counties, it is not by coincidence. Republican leaders are concerned that some…
July 25 Music at the Mansion 7 p.m. Ellwood Mansion, 509 N. First St., DeKalb Free The Chicago Rat-Pack Tribute Band will perform a 90-minute concert on the front porch of the Ellwood…
Rod Griffis started collecting antique bikes in 1996 when he found an old Whizzer motorbike that he once rode as a kid. “I grew up on a farm and we still own the farm so [the…
A neighborhood movie theater, Sears’ onetime world headquarters, a canning factory and even a damaged county courthouse are among properties singled out as among Illinois’ Most…
Rampant sexual abuse occurred unchecked for decades at Illinois’ juvenile detention centers, a new lawsuit filed on behalf of 95 former detainees alleges, citing hundreds of incidents…
As state lawmakers hold hearings targeting the role of pharmacy benefit managers — an influential arm in how the health insurance industry prices prescription drugs — multiple state…
SPRINGFIELD — Advocates for community-based after-school programs say as many as 40,000 youths statewide could lose access to tutoring services, recreation and other extracurricular…
SPRINGFIELD – Supermajority Democrats in the Illinois House moved quickly Wednesday, May 1 to push through a change to state election laws that partially limits ballot access and…
First in a series from the Illinois Answers Project. The electricity in Mary Buchanan’s home in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood was not working – again. The outage…