Camden Lazenby

Deb Wheeler, one of three family members who work at South Prairie Elementary School in Sycamore, is getting ready to retire at the end of the school year. “[It’s] bittersweet because I do love what I do," she said.

A group of social workers, teachers and coaches at Sycamore High School has come together to form a coalition to support student athletes’ health, both body and mind.

By all accounts, Sycamore Middle School career and technical education teacher Kevin Boltz has gone above and beyond to give his students access to equipment that some only see once they’ve arrived on a college campus.

You won’t be able to watch broadcasts of Sycamore City Council meetings anytime soon after council members this week rejected a request from one of their own to video record their meetings.

Don Henderson has been cutting hair since President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office, and has operated a Sycamore barbershop since “Star Wars” premiered in theaters. But that’s all set to change.

The Sycamore Fire Department soon will have a ladder-equipped fire truck for the first time in city history.

Aura Honey Studio, a Cortland-based beauty salon is poised to expand into an adjoining retail business space after the owner experienced success following the loss of her parents.

The late DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy Christina Musil will be posthumously added to the Illinois Police Officers Memorial in Springfield in May, part of a yearly event to honor law enforcement who’ve died in the line of duty.

Public schools in Illinois could be one step closer to adopting a statewide cellphone policy that bans the use of mobile devices during classroom instruction time. What do DeKalb and Sycamore school leaders think of the proposal?

Hundreds gathered in DeKalb Saturday, part of a planned day of nationwide anti-Trump protests. Many expressed anger at what they see is the undemocratic way President Donald Trump is running the government.

Four DeKalb County organizations, including the DeKalb County Democratic Party, are joining together at noon on Saturday in DeKalb for what organizers are calling a “No Kings” march and protest to voice discontent with the Trump administration.

A developer wants to build multiple single-family and multi-family homes and condominiums along 12 acres on Sycamore‘s north side, though his proposal still needs work, city officials said this week.

DeKalb County government has settled a lawsuit filed against private buyers who backed out of a planned $8.3 million sale of the DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, records show.

A decade after the strongest tornado to come through DeKalb County in recorded history decimated Fairdale, the scars left by the storm still are evident across the small but persisting town.

Construction of a $10.5 million new Sycamore fire station, which will replace the city’s 68-year-old station on DeKalb Avenue, is expected to break ground in less than a month.