DeKALB – Instead of buying Boardwalk or Park Place, players of the new board game DeKalb-opoly can purchase DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport and Downtown DeKalb.

The board game, released earlier this year, is sold exclusively at Walmart. Games cost $19.98 each. If the store is sold out of the games, people can call Late for the Sky at 800-422-3434 to request more of the games.

Instead of railroads, players can collect Lincoln Highway, First Street, Peace Road and Fourth Street.

Other properties on the board game include: Corn Fest, Barb City Bagels, The Junction Eating Place, Hopkins Park and DeKalb High School, Glidden Homestead and the Ellwood House Museum.

The games are made in Cincinnati by Late for the Sky Production Co., which started in 1985 by making licensed, collegiate board games with a property trading theme. The company has no affiliation with Hasbro, the makers of Monopoly, and does not use any of its protected trademarks.

In a news release, Bill Schulte, one of the owners of Late for the Sky, said the games are made after the company does research to “make a very localized game about a specific area.”

“We try to make the content as authentic as possible,” he said in the release. “So, we are reaching as many people as we can. We launch the sales exclusively at the local Walmart store in DeKalb. Naturally, Walmart likes to connect to their local customers, and everyone appreciates the fact that the games are made in the USA. Several other Illinois cities are on the drawing board for development and manufacturing.”

Michael Schulte, the game company’s marketing manager, said the reviews on the DeKalb game have been very positive.

“We have been making games for major cities like New York, Chicago and Houston for close to two decades,” he said. “We’ve found there’s just as much interest in smaller towns for their own games. People are proud of where they’re from. If they’re going to play the game, why not a game that features their own town?”