DeKalb Park Board of Commissioners this month added three new members, swearing in newly-elected Dean Bourdages, Tia Anderson, and Michelle Foster.

Pumpkins are headed to the cinema in the 2025 Sycamore Pumpkin Festival. South Prairie Elementary School 5th grader Rayven Rosas submitted the contest’s winning entry: “Pumpkins at the movies.”

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The Dixon softball team traveled to DeKalb Thursday to face the Barbs in a nonconference matchup.

Proposed Trump administration cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - SNAP – which provides food buying assistance for low income people, has officials at the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva concerned.

The DeKalb Public Library will host a cheese tasting for community members to sample various international cheeses.

More than 200 law enforcement agencies throughout Illinois are participating in the “Click It or Ticket” campaign to stop seat belt law violators and impaired drivers over Memorial Day weekend.

To help keep pace with neighboring districts, DeKalb School District 428 is considering increasing pay and benefits for substitute teachers for the 2025-26 school year.

McDonald's, a Chicago-based fast food chain, has a new location coming to the intersection of Plank Road and Route 23 in northern Sycamore.

DeKalb County-area veterans groups, cities and organizers will host Memorial Day events throughout the county for the public to come together to honor all who’ve died in service to the country. Memorial Day is May 26.