The Glidden Homestead, 921 W. Lincoln Highway, celebrated the day Joseph Glidden received a patent for “the Winner” barbed wire Sunday.Joseph Glidden was a farmer in DeKalb who was inspired to invent a new type of fencing after his wife, Lucinda,...
Pointing high up in the sky, this building can’t be missed. Whether it was for orientation or to wait impatiently for the Huskie Bus, a student has been here at least once. With its first two floors built in 1961, the Holmes Student Center might just...
It looks like a castle that is not-so-ironically placed on Castle Drive, just without the flying, flaming arrows like in the old days, and it’s the oldest building at NIU. “The story is that Governor Altgeld had really liked castles,” said Cindy...
