The Aurora Area Blood Bank will hold a blood drive July 26 at the Student Recreation Center and July 27 at the Holmes Student Center Illinois Room. The blood drive is sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and will last from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m....

The city ratified an arbitrator's decision on July 11 awarding DeKalb firefighters a 4.5 percent pay increase, retroactive July 1, 1987. The award will cost the city about $35,000 more than the amount the city had offered, said DeKalb City Manager Mark...

DeKalb must reduce sales tax receipts within various districts from 40 percent to 25 percent of total sales tax received, as a result of an amended Tax Increment Finance law. The law will reduce short-term and long-term state sales taxes cities can receive...

"The administration didn't want us there in the first place. We've been threatened with moving for the past 10 years." That is how Carl Hayano, graduate director of the NIU art department, summed up plans to move graduate art students from their current...

The Holmes Student Center Bookstore's new electronic security system has performed satisfactory during its first month of use. William Herrmann, NIU director of Bond Revenue Operations and director of the student center, said representatives of several...

CHANCE Director Leroy Mitchell, already at the center of the controversial firing of a CHANCE counselor, which some called questionable, is now involved in a dispute concerning missing funds from a Sycamore church. Mitchell, the former minister of the...

Expectations were high. People stood in line readying themselves to laugh until their stomach muscles hurt. Written by John Hughes, creator of Sixteen Candles, for one, and starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, who would think it could be anything but...

While Gov. Michael Dukakis presents his acceptance speech July 21 for the democratic presidential nomination, several DeKalb County residents will be cheering him on in his campaign. Fifth Ward Alderman Bessie Chronopolous said a celebration will be held...

Evaluating the summer drought's effects on area crops can be misleading if done only from a car window. David Whitson, an agricultural adviser at the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service in DeKalb, said the green color of corn can deceive...

The amount of an impending tuition increase for NIU students will be discussed today at the Board of Regents regular meeting. NIU's tuition will be increased, NIU Student Regent Nick Valadez said. He said the amount, however, has not yet been decided....

Although proponents for building the Superconducting Supercollider in Batavia, Il. claim support for their project is growing, there are still some skeptics of the SSC's locating there. The SSC is a research laboratory which collides protons against protons...

Despite this summer's drought conditions, the eleventh annual Cornfest in downtown DeKalb August 26 through 28 again will celebrate the area's agricultural claim to fame. This year's festival will be expanded in size and organizers hope to attract 200,000...