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Dozens of local softball teams, including the Sycamore Sycos and the host Kishwaukee Valley Storm, are participating in the annual Storm Dayz tournament this weekend. Both Sycamore organizations had teams in action Friday ranging from 12u to 18u.

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Nathan P. Sweeney, 45, of DeKalb, pleaded guilty Thursday at the DeKalb County Courthouse, for driving under the influence on March 28, 2024, and causing a crash that killed DeKalb County sheriff‘s deputy Christina Musil.

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With temperatures reaching well into the 90's the last few days, DeKalb County residents have had to find ways to stay cool.

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The DeKalb City Council had a busy agenda Monday night including approving a city grocery tax, voting to prohibit the sale of unregulated hemp-derived THC products and saying farewell to DeKalb Fire Chief Mike Thomas.

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The heat Sunday didn't stop people from filling Hopkins Park in DeKalb to celebrate Juneteenth. The event commemorates the day enslaved people in Texas were told they were free on June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. DeKalb's celebration included games, vendors, dancing and more.

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Dozens of people rallied in support of transgender rights Sunday in downtown DeKalb. Organizers said the Trans Resilience Rally was to show public support and allyship for people they believe are unjustly and harmfully targeted under President Donald Trump's policies.

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More than 100 motorcycles piled into parking lots outside Sycamore Public Library Sunday to escort Oliver Olinger, 2, and his family of Sycamore to the St. Charles Motorcycle Museum. The group helped the boy celebrate one-year free of cancer.

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The DeKalb Pride Fest celebrated Pride Month Saturday with a festival and march in front of the Egyptian Theatre in downtown DeKalb.

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Check out some of the best pictures captured by Daily Chronicle photographers for Shaw Local News Network the week of June 13-19, 2025.