Looking Back at history during the week of May 7, 2025

The Stage Coach Players will open its next production, the drama play “Radium Girls,” May 8. The play is scheduled to run in DeKalb for two weeks.

The 19,000-square-foot new Sycamore fire station at Borden Avenue and South Prairie Drive will be constructed on about 6 acres of land and include a classroom and community meeting space, training tower, and a larger space to house the city’s first ever ladder truck.

Educators from across DeKalb County recently received accolades for their teaching at an annual awards ceremony meant to highlight local learning.

Marshall Morong, 7, high-fived his first grade teacher after stepping out of a Tesla Cybertruck Monday, returning to school amid cheers months after a successful heart transplant. ‘Thank you to our donor family for choosing life in such a difficult moment,’ his mom said

A DeKalb church is inviting the community to a music event this month.

The DeKalb Public Library will host two Teen and Tween Chess Club sessions for youth ages 9 to 18 to play chess.

Those still needing to exchange their plastic I-Pass transponder for the new window stickers used by the Illinois Tollway will have another chance in DeKalb this week.

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Marshall Morong, a first grader at Hinckley-Big Rock Elementary School, arrived in style Monday morning riding in a Tesla Cybertruck donated for use by Tesla of Naperville, escorted by Hinckley and Big Rock first responders. Morong has missed much of the school year while in the hospital waiting for, and eventually receiving, a heart transplant.