Camden Lazenby

Don Henderson has been cutting hair since President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office, and has operated a Sycamore barbershop since “Star Wars” premiered in theaters. But that’s all set to change.

Aura Honey Studio, a Cortland-based beauty salon is poised to expand into an adjoining retail business space after the owner experienced success following the loss of her parents.

The late DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy Christina Musil will be posthumously added to the Illinois Police Officers Memorial in Springfield in May, part of a yearly event to honor law enforcement who’ve died in the line of duty.

Public schools in Illinois could be one step closer to adopting a statewide cellphone policy that bans the use of mobile devices during classroom instruction time. What do DeKalb and Sycamore school leaders think of the proposal?

Hundreds gathered in DeKalb Saturday, part of a planned day of nationwide anti-Trump protests. Many expressed anger at what they see is the undemocratic way President Donald Trump is running the government.

Four DeKalb County organizations, including the DeKalb County Democratic Party, are joining together at noon on Saturday in DeKalb for what organizers are calling a “No Kings” march and protest to voice discontent with the Trump administration.

A developer wants to build multiple single-family and multi-family homes and condominiums along 12 acres on Sycamore‘s north side, though his proposal still needs work, city officials said this week.

DeKalb County government has settled a lawsuit filed against private buyers who backed out of a planned $8.3 million sale of the DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, records show.

A decade after the strongest tornado to come through DeKalb County in recorded history decimated Fairdale, the scars left by the storm still are evident across the small but persisting town.

Construction of a $10.5 million new Sycamore fire station, which will replace the city’s 68-year-old station on DeKalb Avenue, is expected to break ground in less than a month.

Northern Illinois University officials declined to provide more information Thursday on the public institution’s five international students whose visas have been revoked by the U.S. government. No one has said publicly why the students lost their visas as of Thursday.

The owners of The Dirty Bird 815, a staple Sycamore fried chicken restaurant, will soon open up a new food venture in the city’s downtown area.

Drivers who frequent Peace Road on the west side of Sycamore should prepare for more than a year of traveling through a construction site, as an estimated $7.4 million road project is set to begin.

Cortland incumbent Mayor Mark Pietrowski completed a successful reelection bid Tuesday against challenger Douglas Corson, unofficial results show.

The race for a seat on the Genoa-Kingston School District 424 school board separates two candidates by 12 votes, unofficial results show.