If the thousands of animals that have spent time at the Tails Humane Society animal shelter in DeKalb could talk, they’d surely say Nancy Rigler is among their heroes. Rigler, 77, of DeKalb, has been a Tails volunteer for half a century.

When someone is having what could be the worst day of their life in DeKalb County, a team of people you’ll likely never see is often the first to help. The dispatchers working in the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office are the voices on the other end of a 911 call.

A Downers Grove South graduate and member of the Marine Corp stepped up to assist a man he met during a snow storm

When a member of American Legion Post 80 in Downers Grove sought a way to organize information for veterans, he turned to an Elmhurst University data science professor who designed an AI tool to solve the problem.