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The city of DeKalb has proposed a $3.6 million contract with local developer Irving Construction to build a fourth fire station on South Malta Road, documents show. A vote is expected at Monday's City Council meeting.
After barely serving a year, Campton Village Board Trustee Timothy Morgan resigned at the end of Tuesday's village board meeting.
With two weeks left before the General Assembly’s spring session is set to adjourn, negotiations continue on a labor union-backed initiative that would allow Illinoisans to skip religious and political work meetings without reprimand.
Tensions ran high during a Wednesday DeKalb County Board committee meeting, as board members discussed whether a resolution congratulating the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation for regaining sovereign lands should get a County Board vote.
For the second time in less than a year, the Geneva Planning and Zoning Commission Thursday voted to recommend denial of a request to allow a 719,200 square-foot warehouse on the northeast corner of Kirk Road and Fabyan Parkway.
The Illinois House gave final passage to a bill establishing a new cabinet-level state agency whose mission will be to provide a kind of one-stop shop for services focusing on early childhood development and education.
The DeKalb Park District is soliciting for applications to replace board member Patrick Fagan, who resigned from his duties last month, citing personal reasons.
DeKalb Mayor Cohen Barnes has proposed Andre Powell, a current DeKalb school board member who also sits on two city committees, to be the next 5th Ward alderman on the City Council, according to city documents.
The new Sycamore Fire Station No. 1 moved one step closer to reality Monday after the Sycamore City Council unanimously OK’d an agreement with an architecture firm.
Meghan Ostreko, who has 19 years of experience in local government, will oversee various administrative functions and assist in managing day-to-day operations within the village.
The DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center will save more than $1 million after the DeKalb County Board recently approved a new linen contract for the facility, a county official said.
House Bill 5134 would require those convicted of sex trafficking, involuntary servitude, and involuntary sexual servitude of a minor to register as a sex offender
Walsh clashes with city of Joliet, which has sided with NorthPoint.
Group serves disadvantaged persons and people of color, including African Americans, women and persons with disabilities, in DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will counties.
Unlike the federal law, which applies primarily to nationally chartered banks, the state law applies to state-chartered banks and savings banks, credit unions and non-bank mortgage lenders.