Maurice McDavid, a longtime DeKalb resident, former DeKalb High School dean and chairman of the DeKalb Citizen Police Review Board, said he's excited to get to work at the district’s new elementary school.
DeKalb firefighters were called to an electrical fire inside a Northern Illinois University building shortly before midnight Wednesday at Wirtz Hall, authorities said.
Prosecutors’ requests were granted by a judge Tuesday in their plan to use DNA evidence as key in an upcoming double murder trial to allege that Jonathan Hurst, formerly of Chicago, brutally beat to death Patricia A. Wilson and her son, Robert J. Wilson in 2016.
A DeKalb man was charged with armed robbery after police alleged he broke into a DeKalb apartment, threatened a 14-year-old with a gun and stole a firearm and about $2,000 in cash, according to court records.
A box truck damaged the ambulance bay at Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital in Sandwich Tuesday after trying to drive through but being too tall for the clearance causing heavy damage to the ceiling of the bay leaving insulation and wall material hanging down.
Downtown DeKalb’s newest hair and beauty salon, Nena’s Beauty Lounge, helps recent cosmetology school students to grow their business.
A Maple Park woman was airlifted to a Rockford hospital over the weekend after she suffered serious injuries in a crash that police allege was caused by a Cortland woman driving drunk.
Developing: A DeKalb man has been charged after authorities allege he drove drunk and rear-ended a Maple Park police car, injuring the officer inside late Friday night. DeKalb County Sheriff's deputies – who just lost one of their own in a similar crash – responded.
Timeline: DeKalb teen Gracie Sasso-Cleveland loved animals, her friends and looked forward to her first prom, her grandmother said. She never made it. Gracie was killed one year ago today, police said. Her death left the community reeling. What happened and what's next?