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The Ellwood House Museum will offer training for returning and new volunteers interesting in leading guided tours.
Sycamore Middle School recently celebrated its students of the month for December.
Kishwaukee College will host several workshops and training events to support local businesses and employees this spring.
Sycamore Middle School recently celebrated its students of the month for January.
Kishwaukee College recently announced that its enrollment grew by 15% for the spring semester, compared with last spring.
The DeKalb Public Library will host its next grief support group meeting on Feb. 18.
A man familiar to regular attendees of Sycamore City Council meetings is looking for public support that could have him seated on the other side of the room later this year.
The Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center’s next Soup-er Sunday program will feature a presentation on vintage DeKalb County postcards by collector and history and genealogy librarian EvaAnne Johnson.
The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition winner Dylan Zhang, 11, will perform at its annual Arthur D. Montzka Memorial Concert.
DeKalb will hold its third annual Sweet Stroll on Saturday, a weekend local shopping event featuring special vendors at downtown businesses.
Rooted For Good released a list of February locations for Grow Mobile, a mobile food pantry that offers free food and household items to all who visit, no requirements necessary. Here's where the mobile food pantry will be in DeKalb County this month.
The Suter Company’s Community Enrichment Grant Program will offer $100,000 to DeKalb County nonprofits to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of DeKalb will host the last of its winter farmers market fundraisers to finance two new roof furnaces.
Sycamore City Council’s first meeting of the month was over in less than 7 minutes Monday. Here’s everything they accomplished in that time.
Multiple DeKalb County area businesses will close Monday for Day Without Immigrants, a national campaign meant to show the importance of immigrant communities. Protests will address 'these times of uncertainty for many of our community members," a business owner said online.
More than 30 DeKalb County businesses took part in Day Without Immigrants, a nationwide campaign, by closing on Monday to show solidarity in their stance against President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies. The campaign also raises awareness for immigrant communities.
The DeKalb Women’s Club’s next meeting will feature a presentation by Barb Rotondo from The Garden Market in Sycamore.
The DeKalb Township will host a series of AARP Smart Driver Courses beginning Feb. 5 to teach residents defensive driving strategies and provide a road rules refresher.
The DeKalb Public Library will host two hygge programs as part of its Hygge Winter Happiness series.
The DeKalb Public Library will partner with AARP Foundation Tax-Aide to host a program for patrons to receive tax return assistance.
The Sycamore Music Boosters’ annual “A Note to Remember” fundraiser will return to support local music programs.
Attendees can learn how to melt wax, add dye and decorate a candle holder.
The free children’s event will be at 10 a.m. Feb. 8 in the library’s Story and Activity Room, 309 Oak St.
As the verdict was read Thursday and family of Patricia Wilson and Robert Wilson wept, Jonathan D. Hurst, found guilty of murdering the elderly mother and her son, sat next to his defense lawyers and appeared to show no reaction.
The DeKalb Public Library will host a program for patrons to create a Valentine’s Day card.
The league’s next general meeting is set for 7 p.m. Feb. 6. KVAL members will present art pieces created for the Secret Subject challenge.
The DeKalb Public Library will host a Safe Passage information booth for patrons to learn about the organization’s services.
The Sycamore Public Library will host an event for patrons to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
Check out some of the best pictures captured by Daily Chronicle photographers for Shaw Local News Network this week, Jan. 24-30, 2025.
It took the jury less than three hours Thursday to find Jonathan D. Hurst guilty of the 2016 murders of Sycamore mother and son Patricia Wilson, 85, and Robert Wilson, 64. The verdict came on the sixth day of trial.
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Traces of Jonathan D. Hurst's DNA were found on a pillow and two knives tucked away in a crawl space in the basement laundry room of Patricia and Robert Wilson's rural Sycamore home, a forensic expert testified Wednesday. The Wilsons were found bludgeoned to death in 2016.
Your last chance to grab a bite to eat at Wahlburgers inside Hy-Vee in Sycamore is fast approaching, according to a news release from the midwest grocer.
The DeKalb Public Library will hold a program for patrons to learn about Civil Rights Movement leaders Ferdinand Lee Barnett and Ida B. Wells.
The DeKalb Public Library will host a screening of the documentary “Alice’s Ordinary People” for patrons to learn about Civil Rights Movement member Alice Tregay.
The DeKalb Community Cleat Closet is partnering with the DeKalb Chamber Leadership Academy and DeKalb County United to accept items for its upcoming cleat distribution.
St. Mary’s Catholic School recently announced the first and second place winners of its 2025 spelling bee.
Kishwaukee College will host several discussions and events to celebrate Black History Month throughout February. Events begin Feb. 4.
Though Jonathan Hurst has denied ever being in Sycamore, a forensic expert testified in a double murder trial Tuesday that Hurst’s fingerprints match those found on multiple items inside the home of Patricia and Robert Wilson. The Wilsons were found beaten to death Aug. 15, 2016.
DeKalb County service agencies scramble to plan for federal funding freeze: "There’s only so much money to go around and fund the programs," Voluntary Action Center CEO Nate Kloster said Tuesday. The center runs the local Meals on Wheels program.
The former Chicago man accused in the 2016 killings of Patricia and Robert Wilson told police, when asked where he was in August 2016, that he was "going to walk across Illinois," a retired detective said in testimony Monday. The trial of Jonathan D. Hurst continues Tuesday.
The Stage Coach Players will hold auditions starting in February for three productions in its upcoming 2025 season.
Prosecutors continued their arguments Monday during day three of the double murder trial of Jonathan D. Hurst at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Sycamore. Hurst is charged in the 2016 killings of Sycamore mother and son Patricia Wilson, 85, and Robert Wilson, 64.
Kishwaukee College is currently accepting nominations for its 2025 Awards of Excellence.
The Living Room at Northwestern Medicine’s Ben Gordon Center recently opened a new food pantry to support the community’s clients and families nutritional needs.
The J.F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center will host a “Glidden’s 1873 Date Night” for residents to enjoy 1870 courting traditions.
The February hybrid Brown Bag Lunch and Local Lore series at the DeKalb County History Center will feature a program on how to preserve family treasures.
The DeKalb County Board this week approved a $6.9 million contract for a construction project that will widen Peace Road and replace a bridge along the road north of Route 64 in Sycamore.
The Sycamore United Methodist Church’s ABC Preschool program will host an open house for parents to learn about the preschool and daycare offering.
DeKalb County education, law enforcement and faith leaders weighed in this week on policy changes from President Donald Trump’s new administration that could bring federal immigration agents into schools and places of worship.