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DeKalb County awarded a grant to help prevent drug use

By Maria Ahmad | September 17, 2012

DeKalb County was recently awarded two grants to initiate drug and substance abuse prevention programs throughout the community. The federal grant was awarded through the Federal Drug Free Commission from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...

Sports bar atmosphere hits dining halls

By Felix Sarver | October 4, 2011

Students looking for a sports bar atmosphere should consider attending dinner at the residence halls tonight.Neptune, Douglas, Lincoln and Grant will offer a Sports Bar Night as their dinner theme, said Michael Stang, executive director of Housing &...

Empty Egyptian Theatre

Egyptian Theatre renovations nearly complete

By Andrea Azzo | September 21, 2011

After a summer of renovations, the Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., will host an open house featuring its new seats and sound system. The event will be at 6:30 p.m. tonight and is free and open to the public. Alex Nerad, executive director for the...

Christian Smith (left), Johnny Tran (left center) junior time arts majors, Alex Beach (right center), and Mike Lundgren (right) senior new media technology majors talk on the stairs of Gilbert Hall Tuesday evening.

Gilbert Hall renovations set to take effect

By Matthew Frierdich | August 25, 2011

Plans to renovate Gilbert Hall are moving forward. Gilbert closed its doors as a residence hall in 1995, at that time it started to house university offices. The building is set to open in 2013. The new Gilbert will be targeted to upperclassmen. "We wanted...

Northern area school libraries awarded $16K from state

By Thomas Vershelde | March 20, 2011

DeKALB | Seven northern Illinois school districts recently received state funding in the form of the School District Library Program for use in their school libraries, including DeKalb and Sycamore districts. A total of $16,000 was awarded to libraries...

DeKalb Police recieve grants for computers

By Jessica Wells | August 25, 2010

The Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System recently awarded grants to DeKalb County law enforcement agencies for ruggedized computers to be mounted in squad cars. ILEAS awarded a total of $75,174 to DeKalb County on Monday, $34,170 of which will be received...

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