Megann Horstead

The Northern Illinois Food Bank is expected to feed more people this holiday season than in previous years, including the pandemic era, despite government assistance like SNAP reinstated to help put food on the table.

DeKalb Park Board leaders could be exploring what to do about the park district’s indoor facilities and outdoor athletic fields in the years to come.

Free community wellness series at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church promotes holistic health in DeKalb.

DeKalb School District 428 this month clarified plans for a new preschool to increase pre-kindergarten classroom space without a referendum. Some educators and parents voiced concerns about a secondary proposal to rework which buildings 5th through 8th graders attend school.

Plans for a solar farm on 38 acres along Route 38 and John Huber Parkway are a go after recent DeKalb City Council action.

DeKalb city leaders again have given the developer behind plans to refurbish the long-vacant former St. Mary’s Hospital building into apartments more time.

DeKalb city leaders are in agreement with a transportation provider on a set of terms under a new, three-year deal to supply public transit services for the city.

Local historian Steve Bigolin receives DeKalb County Tribute to Heroes award for preservation efforts.

As work gets underway on the site of an estimated 1-million-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility off Peace Road and Fairview Drive, a DeKalb panel threw its unanimous support behind an unknown manufacturer’s plans.

Bill Lovett – longtime businessman and founder of Lovett’s Towing and Recovery in DeKalb – is being remembered as a father figure to many. Lovett died on Oct. 18. He was 73. Shannon Lovett described his father as “larger than life.”

Multiple residents of University Village on DeKalb's north side made some concerns regarding quality of living, youth activities and engagement known to city leaders in a public meeting this weekend. "It’s going to take a village to save a village," resident Demetrius Page said.

DeKalb's annual charity basketball game and toy drive returns on Dec. 1 at Huntley Middle School, pitting local first responders and teachers in a friendly rivalry for a good cause.

DeKalb Park District's proposed budget highlights funding challenges and improvements for 2026.

DeKalb School District 428 has outlined an ambitious plan to build a new home for pre-kindergarten learning, which officials said would provide more space for a growing middle school student population by reconfiguring what buildings fifth through eighth graders attend.

A local social service agency and its plans to establish a new youth homeless shelter are getting an assist from the city of DeKalb.