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The Kishwaukee College Foundation recently named DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Sullivan as its 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.

The Sycamore Chamber of Commerce recently celebrated Sycamore Carpetland USA’s updated showroom.
The Northern Illinois University football team holds a spring practices Tuesday in Huskie Stadium at NIU in DeKalb.
The Sycamore girls soccer team traveled to Maple Park Monday to take on Kaneland in an Interstate Eight Conference matchup.

Safe Passage will hold its annual Walk a Mile in Their Shoes event on Aoril 18 for community members to increase awareness and reduce stigma towards gender-based violence.

Some administrators in DeKalb schools will be getting a boost in their pay from stipends due, in part, to action taken this week by the DeKalb School District 428 Board.
The DeKalb School District 428 Board this week revised its 2025 property tax levy. “Basically, what that means is we could take more money with a higher rate, but we’re electing not to, in part, because taxpayers have been hit pretty hard already this year,” Nick Atwood said.

DeKalb High School is set to open its spring production the musical “Hairspray the Broadway Musical,” April 16.
With summer approaching, leaders for DeKalb School District 428 decided not to take the next step yet with implementing Vision For28, a larger plan aimed at reducing middle school class sizes.

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