Officials and staff with Safe Passage hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking Friday to mark the start of construction for a long-awaited new and expanded shelter in DeKalb, for those experiencing domestic violence.

The DeKalb Public Library will host an after-hours concert featuring Arcomusical on Dec. 12.

The DeKalb American Legion Auxiliary is hosting a Wreaths Across America campaign to provide holiday wreaths for DeKalb County residents to buy for veterans and veteran gravesites.

A Hinckley man with a history of confrontations with the police was arrested on Tuesday after several hours of negotiations with DeKalb County sheriff’s deputies. He's the same man who crashed a car into the Sycamore Police Department in 2021, according to court records.

A 19-year employee from DeKalb who works as a nurse case manager at the Marklund Hyde Center near Geneva was named Employee of the Year.

The DeKalb Public Library will host an event for residents to create a gingerbread house box to store small Christmas gifts.

“While nature is no place for politics, a new data center is being proposed that threatens not only the community around Afton Forest Preserve but the very future of the forest preserve itself,” reads an online open letter by the preserve near a proposed 560-acre site in DeKalb.

More than 170 people have signed an online petition against Endeavour Energy’s proposed 560-acre Edged data center development in DeKalb. The City Council is expected to vote on the development Monday.

There’s still a ways to go before TD Ryan’s annual Freezin’ For Food drive meets last year’s totals, he said. Donations are welcome at the Hy-Vee parking lot near the gas station from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.