DeKALB – From Aug. 21 through Aug. 25, NIU students moved into the residence halls while enjoying the weather prior to the start of the fall semester. Cars were lined up outside of the various residence halls as students unloaded their belongings...

DeKALB – On a cool summer morning, around 50 people gathered to dedicate a new veteran’s memorial in DeKalb. At 10 a.m. Thursday at the north wall of the Plaza DeKalb building, across from the Egyptian Theatre, veterans of DeKalb and supporting...

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 5:32 p.m. Aug. 23 to reflect the details of Thursday’s meeting of the NIU Board of Trustees’ Finance, Audit, Compliance, Facilities and Operations Committee. DeKALB – A dwindling holding balance and...

DeKALB – The information in this report is compiled from the NIU Police Department’s Daily Crime Log. Any case defined as “unfounded” was not included in this list. Any “closed by exception” case is closed due to circumstances outside of...

DeKALB – Students played games, ate at food trucks, spun around on carnival rides and tried to not fall off a mechanical bull at the end of the semester carnival event hosted by the Campus Activities Board on Friday. From 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday...

Editor's Note: This is part of a larger series, "Looking back at the Class of 2020" that asks 3 senior graduates about their experience graduating during COVID-19 and how they feel graduating now. DeKALB – Four years after a global pandemic that...

What did your senior year look like before the pandemic? “I feel like I made the most of my college experience as much as I could. I did like a lot of sports, I did band, I did the pit orchestra for the musical — I was in a lot of clubs.” Do...

What did your senior year look like before the pandemic? “When you're an athlete, you're seeing your soccer season and your senior night and, like, people celebrating you and stuff, and there was just really none of that, it was just, I never really...

What did your senior year look like before the pandemic? “One of my assistant band directors, he used to go to the YMCA which is where I would go to the gym like every evening. And so I'd see him there occasionally and he was like, ‘hey, do you...

Editor’s note: This article was last updated at 12:35 a.m. DeKALB – At 12:25 p.m. Thursday, student protesters began to gather at the MLK Commons stairs with snacks, chalk, posters, Palestinian flags and sunscreen. The protest started marching...

Correction: This video was taken down at 12:00 p.m. and reuploaded to remove incorrect information, according to a statement from NIU, regarding an alleged meeting between NIU representatives and Pro-Palestine protesters. In Students for Justice in...

DeKALB – NIU President Lisa Freeman announced at Wednesday’s University Council meeting that, barring any other issues, financial aid packages should be sent out to first-year students by the end of next week and to returning students within the next...