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DeKalb County Veterans receive new funding

By Devin Oommen, News Reporter | October 12, 2023

DeKALB – A DeKalb veterans group is getting new funding for memorial projects. The DeKalb County Veterans Recognition Fund was announced by the DeKalb County Community Foundation. The fund will allow the DeKalb County Veterans group to do work honoring...

DeKalb County students receive $196,000 in scholarships

By Joseph Howerton, Video Editor | September 13, 2023

DeKALB – 137 DeKalb County students were awarded with over $196,000 in scholarship funds in 2023. The DeKalb County Community Foundation partners with local organizations and philanthropists in redistributing charitable assets through DeKalb County. College...

Youth-led committee to host community outreach event

By Northern Star Staff | October 16, 2019

DeKALB — Youth Engaged in Philanthropy, a program of the DeKalb County Community Foundation, is looking for 10 high school volunteers for its second My Pantry Express food distribution event from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the northeast parking lot...

Healthcare scholarship open for local high schoolers

By Northern Star staff | November 19, 2015

The DeKalb County Community Foundation will award the James and Marjorie Lehan Scholarship to graduates at DeKalb and Sycamore High Schools beginning in spring 2016.The Lehan family has provided healthcare to patients in DeKalb County for the last 70...

DeKalb County Nonprofit Partnership to hold economic crisis meeting

By Northern Star staff | November 3, 2015

The DeKalb County Nonprofit Partnership (DCNP) is holding a community economic crisis meeting Thursday to discuss the lack of state funding.The meeting will provide information about the Illinois budget crisis and how it is impacting local citizens. The...

Nonprofits to participate in Give Local DeKalb County

By Northern Star staff | April 9, 2015

DeKalb County nonprofit organizations will accept donations May 5 as a part of the Give Local DeKalb County fundraising event.Give Local DeKalb County is an annual 24-hour fundraising initiative in which nonprofits can receive cash donations from community...

1923 Sycamore fire truck gets revamp with grant

By Kristin Maglabe | November 19, 2014

A $2,500 grant has made it possible for restoration to begin on the Sycamore Fire Department’s first motorized fire engine, a 1923 Stutz.The DeKalb County Community Foundation presented the grant to the Sycamore Fire Preservation Company Monday. Although...

Restoration project honors Fire Department’s history

By Keisha Howerth | May 1, 2014

The Sycamore Fire Preservation Company is in final talks to display the city’s first motorized fire engine in a local car show at the end of July.The nonprofit organization began a campaign to raise $25,000 to restore a 1923 Stutz fire truck two weeks...

Sycamore book shows city workings

By Ryan Chodora | September 25, 2013

Thirty years of Sycamore’s manufacturing history have been condensed into a book written by an NIU alumnus.The Sycamore History Museum, 1730 N. Main St., held an open panel discussion at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the DeKalb County Community Foundation, 475...

DeKalb Fire Department gets grant for new compression machine

By Northern Star Staff | November 25, 2012

The DeKalb County Community Foundation has donated more than $13,000 to the DeKalb Fire Department, 700 Pine St. (DFD) to buy a new life saving device. The foundation’s grant of $13,654 to the department will allow DFD to purchase a new Lucas 2 Chest...

Larry Bolles to retire after 34 years at NIU

By Chelsey Boutan | April 25, 2012

After finding out that he’s retiring, Larry Bolles said students stop by his office almost every day with one pleading request: “Please don’t go. What are we going to do without you?” “That tells you that you must have done something right,”...