Although DeKalb County has a low unemployment rate, county officials are trying to bring in new businesses to increase employment. DeKalb County unemployment was at 5.3 percent in December, 1989, according to a study by the Illinois Department of Employment...

Safe Play Inc., one of the four companies which bid to replace NIU and Illinois State University stadium turf has lodged a formal complaint against the Board of Regents. Safe Play, which submitted the lowest of four bids, charges the Board of Regent's...

Clyde Wingfield, former NIU president who resigned in 1986 amidst an investigation into the costs of renovating his campus home, is being considered for a similar job in Arkansas. A tenured professor in NIU's Political Science Department, Wingfield said...

Students can register for the March 20 Illinois primary elections today from 9 a.m. to noon in DuSable Hall. One member of the NIU Black Student Union and two people from the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners will register students. Registration will...

A local environmental and government leader spoke to a group of about 50 students Thursday night at the Student Environmental Action Coalition meeting at the Holmes Student Center. Republican State Representative Candidate Charles Marshall, who has spent...

NIU and the DeKalb County Highway Department continued to remove snow from Wednesday night's snowfall for several days. NIU's Physical Plant is in charge of roads, streets, parking lots and sidewalks on campus, said Tom Anderson, Physical Plant grounds...

A proposed tuition freeze has suffered a thawing blow with the announcement of Gov. James Thompson's spending plans for higher education. The governor's budget is "a step forward" for higher education but a "very small step," failing to meet the fiscal...

The president of Crawford & Associates and representatives from Amoco spoke to future leaders of the world Saturday afternoon in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium. Sally Crawford, Illinois' Women Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. Magazine went from a one...

Through the effort of regular workers and volunteers, the Student Association Recycling Center has eliminated the garbage pile-up from the semester break. The center will now concentrate on recycling promotion and awareness on what it does, said Dave...

As NIU students prepare for the pilgrimage to the southern ports of call, they should keep one fact in mind ... the tan fades, but its effects don't. The American Red Cross reported more than 500,000 new cases of skin cancer last year, making it the most...

NIU Provost Kendall Baker tried to ease the tensions of some students and faculty who were offended by an anti-discrimination chain letter from NIU. At a University Council meeting Wednesday Baker said the letter was sent by President John La Tourette...

Visitors to Florida's Epcot Center and MGM Studios will get a chance to hear NIU's Huskie Marching Band when the group heads south for spring break. Huskie Marching Band Director Frank Bibb said about half of the 250-member band, including the colorguard...