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The first chief academic officer for Sycamore schools was the chief strategy officer for Freeport School District 145. The Sycamore school board approved a contract for Maurice Davis this week.

The Sycamore Community School District 427 has hired two new administrative staff members who will work as assistant principals in separate elementary schools.

Sycamore school board members recently added four new administrative positions with yearly salaries worth a total of $501,500. Board President Michael DeVito told Shaw Local, “The district has the financial ability to pay for the salaries of the people we hire.”

The Sycamore in Bloom planters found at two dozen locations across Sycamore have a financial sponsor, the 1st Ward alderwoman said.

An Oswego School District 308 assistant superintendent has been selected to become the first chief operating officer for Sycamore schools.

The principal of a La Grange School District elementary school will be Sycamore’s next director of learning and teaching for elementary school students.

A majority of the Sycamore City Council Monday voted in favor of charging new fees when certain actions are taken by the Sycamore Fire Department while responding to a call for help.

Two Leland residents were hospitalized after being involved in a single-car crash Saturday evening in Somonauk Township, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.

A Creston woman was charged with robbery, aggravated battery and mob action after her former partner was beaten by a group of men who jumped from her car, according to court documents.

The Sycamore City Council may soon impose a fee on those who need the city’s fire department to respond to certain car crashes, city documents show.

The owner of a Sycamore-based real estate firm said Tuesday that pictures of a home his brokerage is under contract for were used in an attempted scam.

A motorcyclist was injured but not hospitalized after avoiding a downed tree while riding through Wednesday afternoon’s storms, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.

For the year 2025 alone, the Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center reports that the financial loss to the public is more than $20 billion. More often than not the victims are 60 years and older.

Hamza Khatatbeh, 17, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Wednesday, nearly three years after he stabbed Sycamore teenager Kaleb McCall to death in a bank parking lot.

DeKalb police arrested a Montgomery man recently after a woman told them he sexually abused her while delivering a couch to her apartment, according to records filed in DeKalb County court.