DeKALB — NIU and professors from surrounding colleges gathered to discuss the success of the CHANCE [Counseling Help and Assistance Necessary for a College Education] program and share ideas on how to best serve first-generation students. A first...
Polls have closed for the 2018 midterm election as of 7 p.m. The Northern Star will be updating this story as numbers come in. Election results are currently 100 percent totaled for DeKalb County.GovernorJB Pritzker - 16,910DEMOCRATICBruce Rauner - 16,138REPUBLICANGrayson...
J.B. Pritzker’s DeKalb office at 2446 Sycamore Ave. was full of local Democrats celebrating his gubernatorial win, reacting to the election results as they came and discussing America’s future as the House of Representatives flipped in favor of the...
DeKALB — Between the years of 1971 and 1995, Jerry Thompson could be found in the adviser’s office of the Northern Star with a baseball cap resting on his head and a coffee held firmly in his hand. Thompson died peacefully the morning of Nov. 6 and...
Jesse White has served as the Secretary of State of Illinois since 1999 and has been elected for his sixth consecutive term in 2018. Before entering politics, White worked for 33 years in the Chicago Public School system as a teacher and administrator....
Democrat J.B. Pritzker has defeated incumbent Republican Bruce Rauner in the most expensive governor’s race in American history.Pritzker spent $176 million on the election, while Rauner spent $79 million; both numbers beat the previous record for most...
Democrat Susana Mendoza won the election for comptroller general by a large margin Tuesday, wiping her Republican counterpart Darlene Senger out of the waters.The election was so overwhelmingly supportive of Mendoza that Senger called to concede. In DeKalb,...
Superintendent Amanda Christensen is running unopposed, but she has put her effort forth elsewhere.Christensen said since she is running unopposed for regional superintendent, she would like those looking to support her financially to put their funds...
