DeKALB | Members at a meeting of the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce Tuesday addressed economic and aesthetic improvements to the city and safety concerns. Safety Overgrown trees blocking street lights could be causing a safety risk for pedestrians in DeKalb....

The City of DeKalb has experienced a drop in crime over the past year, according to the DeKalb Police Department's 2010 Annual Report. According to the report, DeKalb saw a 10 percent reduction in FBI Part I crimes, which are used to calculate the crime...

Police are investigating two individual reports of shots being fired over the weekend in downtown DeKalb and in the neighborhood of Ridge and Rushmoore drives. DeKalb Police Lt. Gary Spangler said no one was injured in either case. Spangler said both...

On Dec. 12, all I wanted was some pancakes. For those of you who do not remember that day, it was the Sunday when the Bears got baited by the Patriots in the "Blizzard Bowl." I live in Rochelle, and my options for breakfast consist of McDonald's and Burger...

An herbal blend that gets users high and is currently legal in Illinois will be banned starting Jan. 1, and local merchants that sell the substance are responding to the ban. "Both students and people from the town buy it to smoke it," said Abraham Mustafa,...

DeKalb - So, if you have been on Facebook any time in the last day, maybe you heard the news; Kate Winslet was at Otto's Nightclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway, on Friday. For some reason, as hard as it is to believe, it is true. Kate Winslet did indeed grace...

One of the eastbound lanes of Lincoln Highway was closed for repairs Thursday after a semi-truck hit a fire hydrant. The truck was making a right turn going eastbound on Lincoln Highway, said DeKalb Police Lt. Carl Leoni. It didn't quite make the turn,...