DeKalb soon will be feeling the pressure of yet another intersection closing. Beginning Nov. 18, the Route 23 and Route 38 intersection will be closed for repairs along the railroad. According to a press release from the City of DeKalb, the local detour...

Several incidences of spray-painted gang symbols were reported in October, and DeKalb police believe they may be gang-related. "If it is [graffiti], it is gang-related," DeKalb Police Detective Roger Plant said. The first indication of a rise in gang...

Students looking to get away from their hum-drum DeKalb lives and see the world are in luck. The "Festival of Travel," the largest gathering of tour operators, cruise lines, hotels and other travel suppliers to ever come to the DeKalb area, is almost...

With the latest referendum getting a no-go from the citizens of DeKalb in Tuesday’s vote, growth is an issue that the DeKalb School District has concerns about. It’s also one of the items on next week’s DeKalb City Council agenda. The City of DeKalb,...

The Metropolitan Planning Organization still is in its infancy and is ironing out some details. For example, it remains to be determined how each city will participate in the decision making. "We want it in place before January," said Paul Rasmussen,...

An ad-hoc committee, formed to deal with overcrowding in the DeKalb County Jail, has decided to hear presentations from potential consulting firms who will address the problem. According to an Oct. 24 request for a proposal by DeKalb County, during the...

If anybody plans on marrying while at NIU and doesn’t want to go too far for the reception, the South Pointe Banquet and Conference Centre, 200 Gurler Road, is an option. The banquet and catering facility is the largest of its kind in the DeKalb area....

Almost everyone has egged someone’s car or lit a bag of dog poo on fire and set it on someone’s porch, but sometimes it can be taken too far. DeKalb police Lt. Jim Kayes said gang graffiti, putting a brick through a car or house window and slashing...

A fire Tuesday morning at a country club that was serving as a polling place in south suburban Crete forced officials to move the voting to a facility across the street and to extend voting until 9 p.m. in the village, election officials said. No one...

The governor’s mansion in Springfield will house a Democrat for the first time in more than 25 years. Rod Blagojevich won the race by a tight margin securing 52 percent of the votes with 99 percent of the precincts reporting. He defeated his Republican...

Democrat Secretary of State candidate Jesse White was re-elected Tuesday with more than two times as many votes as the Republican candidate Kris O’Rourke Cohn. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, White received 68 percent of the vote while Cohn...

Despite an almost disappointing evening for Illinois Republicans, all soon was forgotten as word came in that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert resoundingly won his seat as representative of Illinois' 14th district. "It's great and it's very rewarding...