Family Service Agency of DeKalb County invites the community to support Bowl for Kids’ Sake, the Big Brothers Big Sisters program’s largest annual fun ...
Feb. 29, 2016 - 5:30 am
The DeKalb County Retired Teachers’ Association will meet at 11 a.m. March 9 in the dining room at Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center, 2944 Green ...
Feb. 29, 2016 - 5:30 am
DeKALB – Homes sales plunged 30 percent last month as the inventory of properties on the market in DeKalb County declined sharply and prices increased ...
Feb. 28, 2016 - 11:44 pm
DeKALB – Starting today, residents can cast early votes at five locations throughout the county, including the DeKalb Township building. Feb. 28, 2016 - 11:41 pm
Toys for Tots would like to thank Gary Mullis for the 46th annual music event he organized. The Country Music and Toy Drive held Dec. 6 during the Toy ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
Matt Slider, a Life Scout with Boy Scouts of America Troop 16 chartered by the Federated Church, recently completed his Eagle Scout project, “Book Ext ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
Students in grades six through eight are encouraged to enter the first Money Smart Kid DeKalb County essay contest and compete for the chance to win $ ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
CHICAGO – Young transgender children allowed to live openly as the gender they identify with fared as well psychologically as other kids in a small st ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 1:01 pm
CHICAGO – One of the nation’s most crowded jails may get relief later this year with the opening of a 24-hour triage center in Chicago where police ca ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 12:24 am
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A trade association for online daily fantasy sports sites said Thursday it supports an Illinois House plan to regulate online ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 12:23 am
NEW YORK – Sears’ fourth-quarter loss widened despite deep cost cuts and, after the struggling retailer limped through the crucial holiday shopping se ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 12:21 am
CHICAGO – Bernie Sanders was in his first year at the University of Chicago, 20 and with a thick New York accent, when he took to the steps of the adm ...
Feb. 25, 2016 - 9:46 am
CHICAGO – The state’s troubled child welfare agency has submitted an improvement plan to a judge that details more oversight, pilot programs and train ...
Feb. 24, 2016 - 10:04 pm
CHICAGO – Chicago State University announced Tuesday the elimination of spring break this year to ensure its students will finish the semester before ...
Feb. 23, 2016 - 11:36 pm
CHICAGO – A campaign to increase diversity in the ranks of the Chicago Police Department has resulted in a 13 percentage point jump in minority applic ...
Feb. 23, 2016 - 11:32 pm
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Bruce Rauner’s attempt last week to spur lawmakers into action left no clear way forward in Illinois’ seemingly never-ending budget ...
Feb. 21, 2016 - 11:24 pm
NORTHBROOK – Authorities say a Highland Park man has been charged in connection with a string of burglaries of area hair and nail salons. Feb. 20, 2016 - 11:15 pm
DeKALB – DeKalb police are investigating an armed robbery reported Friday night in which a man was hit in the face with a pistol and and his cellphone ...
Feb. 28, 2016 - 5:55 pm
SYCAMORE – A judge set bond at $500,000 each for two DeKalb teens charged in connection with a shooting Thursday that sent two people to the hospital. Feb. 27, 2016 - 1:01 am
DeKALB – Police said Friday that a 16-year-old boy was the person who pulled the trigger in an afternoon shooting Thursday at 10th and Pleasant street ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 7:21 am
SYCAMORE – A man police said forced his way onto a local school bus Wednesday and encouraged his son to fight another student was released Thursday fr ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 12:08 am
DeKALB – Police have arrested one suspect and are seeking another in a shooting that happened after a confrontation between two groups of people near ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 12:27 am
DeKALB – Police are investigating a burglary of the Shabbona Casey’s, from which about $1,000 of video surveillance equipment was stolen. Feb. 24, 2016 - 9:59 pm
SYCAMORE – The top two assistants to DeKalb County State’s Attorney Richard Schmack left their posts earlier this year, and the office is in the proce ...
Feb. 22, 2016 - 11:44 pm
SYCAMORE – A DeKalb County judge Monday said she needed information from the Department of Child and Family Services before reducing bond for a woman ...
Feb. 22, 2016 - 5:16 pm
In his first presidential campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to close the infamous U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where torture has been p ...
Feb. 28, 2016 - 11:53 pm
President Barack Obama has said “the Constitution is pretty clear about what should happen now” that Justice Antonin Scalia’s death has left a vacancy ...
Feb. 24, 2016 - 10:03 pm
We should soon have a business incubator in DeKalb County, and additional online resources to help would-be entrepreneurs get started. Feb. 24, 2016 - 10:04 pm
You might not know this, but a couple of our local schools have reached the “Sweet 16” in a statewide tournament of nicknames. Feb. 23, 2016 - 11:22 pm
My first month as the President of Kishwaukee College has been an enlightening and rewarding experience. I’d like to share some things I have learned ...
Feb. 20, 2016 - 12:17 am
We applaud the Daily Chronicle staff for their three-part series delving into the crisis in mental health care and the lack of services in this county ...
Feb. 16, 2016 - 1:15 am
We get a lot of police reports and listen to a lot of police radio traffic at the Daily Chronicle, and while a lot of it is about serious stuff, somet ...
Feb. 16, 2016 - 1:08 am
Thumbs-up: To a trip to state for the Indian Creek girls basketball team. It’s been a magical season for the girls from the school in Shabbona and Wat ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 12:11 am
It is good that the public has taken an interest in the recent proposals to pass ordinances addressing unlawful assemblies in the City of DeKalb. Feb. 23, 2016 - 11:23 pm
Thumbs-up: To the Indian Creek girls basketball team for making the deepest playoff run in program history. Sophomore guard MaKayli Vann hit the game- ...
Feb. 20, 2016 - 12:16 am
The proposal for a new countywide sales tax to pay for capital improvements at DeKalb County school districts should be eyed with some skepticism. Feb. 18, 2016 - 12:27 am
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner will deliver his 2017 budget address to state lawmakers in Springfield today, an odd situation considering they have yet to ...
Feb. 16, 2016 - 10:41 pm
Toys for Tots would like to thank Gary Mullis for the 46th annual music event he organized. The Country Music and Toy Drive held Dec. 6 during the Toy ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
Matt Slider, a Life Scout with Boy Scouts of America Troop 16 chartered by the Federated Church, recently completed his Eagle Scout project, “Book Ext ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
Students in grades six through eight are encouraged to enter the first Money Smart Kid DeKalb County essay contest and compete for the chance to win $ ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
Last year, Family Service Agency’s Children’s Advocacy Center coordinated more than 165 child physical and sexual abuse cases in DeKalb County. Each m ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
The DeKalb County Community Foundation announces the creation of the Brett and Thomas Kubasiak Scholarship Fund, established in memory of Brett and Th ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
The Northern Illinois Reading Council will host a membership appreciation event from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 12, at Katie’s Cup, 507 Seventh S ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
Maple Syrup Fest will be Saturday, March 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Natural Resource Education Center in Russell Woods Forest Preserve. The pre ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
LOS ANGELES – Costume design is one of those arts that's often taken for granted during awards season. There's an old saying in the below-the-line cra ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 5:30 am
NORMAL – Madison Russell went leaping through the air and came up with an acrobatic steal in the final 30 seconds with her Indian Creek girls basketba ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 4:34 pm
STERLING – The long road trips for NIB-12 Conference games ended Friday night for the Kaneland boys basketball team, and they felt glad to be back hom ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 10:05 pm
Brady Huffman carried the offensive load for the Genoa-Kingston boys basketball in its 46-41 win at Richmond-Burton on Friday night. Feb. 26, 2016 - 9:59 pm
AMBOY – The Class 1A Amboy Regional Final between the Indian Creek and Marquette boys basketball teams quickly turned into a defensive battle, resulti ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 9:42 pm
DEKALB – The Northern Illinois men's basketball team looked to be well on their way to a sizable victory against Western Michigan. Feb. 27, 2016 - 10:00 pm
Northern Illinois senior guard Travon Baker scored six points in a matter of seconds to give the Huskies the lead early in the second half at Central ...
Feb. 23, 2016 - 8:17 pm
The Northern Illinois football team won't have to wait to the Mid-American Conference Championship game to potentially get another shot of Bowling Gre ...
Feb. 22, 2016 - 11:52 pm
Freshman shooter Courtney Woods had a career day for Northern Illinois and junior guard Ally Lehman made school history, but the Huskies fell, 84-60, ...
Feb. 21, 2016 - 11:06 pm
The Kishwaukee Special Recreation Association has hired Stacy Veldhuizen to be its full-time therapeutic recreation program coordinator. Feb. 23, 2016 - 5:30 am
NEW YORK – Starbucks is changing the terms of its rewards program so that people who spend around $5 or less per visit won't get as many freebies. Feb. 22, 2016 - 11:28 am
MOLINE – Deere cut its full-year earnings forecast Friday even as the agricultural equipment maker beat Wall Street's expectations for the first quart ...
Feb. 19, 2016 - 11:31 pm
WASHINGTON – The number of people seeking unemployment aid fell last week to the lowest level since November, evidence that stock market turmoil and s ...
Feb. 18, 2016 - 10:06 am
WASHINGTON – Cold winter weather appears to have cut into homebuilding in the Midwest and Northeast, causing the pace of construction to tumble in Jan ...
Feb. 17, 2016 - 8:24 am
The DeKalb Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, board members and staff congratulate Friedrichs Eye on the opening of its eye care center at 2670 DeKalb A ...
Feb. 16, 2016 - 5:30 am
The Sycamore and DeKalb Chambers’ Ambassadors helped celebrate the grand opening of the newly renovated Elm Street Realtors. The business is located a ...
Feb. 16, 2016 - 5:30 am
The Cardiac Lab at Kishwaukee Hospital, part of Northwestern Medicine, has been granted a three-year term of accreditation in echocardiography in the ...
Feb. 16, 2016 - 5:30 am
WASHINGTON – U.S. retail sales rose modestly in January, evidence that Americans kept shopping despite sharp drops in stock prices. Feb. 12, 2016 - 8:33 am
DeKALB – School officials throughout DeKalb County are considering trying to implement a sales tax that could tack on an extra 1 percent in sales tax ...
Feb. 17, 2016 - 9:38 am
SYCAMORE – Sycamore School District 427 will host a public hearing Feb. 23 to discuss a proposal that would mean laying off 56 positions throughout th ...
Feb. 11, 2016 - 12:01 am
Incorrect information given to the Daily Chronicle caused this story to contain an error. There is no technology fee increased proposed for next semes ...
Feb. 12, 2016 - 2:05 pm
DeKALB – Several DeKalb High School forensics team members will compete Saturday at the Freeport Sectional for a chance to advance to the Illinois Hig ...
Feb. 8, 2016 - 11:01 pm
SYCAMORE – Teacher layoffs have been proposed in Sycamore School District 427 as the district heads into the second year of its three-year budget redu ...
Feb. 5, 2016 - 11:49 pm
DeKALB – The Kishwaukee College Board has entered into talks with its unions to discuss layoffs due to lack of funding, officials said. Feb. 4, 2016 - 11:30 pm
SOMONAUK – The Somonauk School District 432 Board is expected to interview a crop of board member candidates at a special meeting Monday. Feb. 2, 2016 - 10:55 pm
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The U.S. Education Department is not relenting on requirements to test students on math and language arts abilities, despite the end o ...
Jan. 28, 2016 - 2:17 pm
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A University of Missouri assistant communications professor was charged Monday with misdemeanor assault linked to her run-in with s ...
Jan. 25, 2016 - 12:52 pm
BOISE, Idaho – Solar-powered trackers on wings have recorded California condors soaring to 15,000 feet, while locators attached to humpback whales hav ...
Feb. 28, 2016 - 11:52 pm
HALEIWA, Hawaii – Rescuers battled winds of up to 23 mph and waves up to 30 feet Saturday as they searched for 12 Marines who are missing after two he ...
Feb. 28, 2016 - 11:48 pm
LOS ANGELES – In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama "Spotlight" took best picture at the 88th Academy Award ...
Feb. 28, 2016 - 11:47 pm
LANSING, Mich. – Thousands of emails newly released by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder provide a behind-scenes look at how his administration tried to manag ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 11:36 pm
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices’ mos ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 11:29 pm
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Hillary Clinton overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in Saturday's South Carolina primary, drawing staggering support from the state's black De ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 11:26 pm
LOS ANGELES – Three people were stabbed Saturday, one critically, after a small group of Ku Klux Klan members staging an anti-immigrant rally in South ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 11:25 pm
WASHINGTON – Marco Rubio released summaries of his last five years of tax filings on Saturday, revealing him to be a candidate with a senator's steady ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 11:24 pm
VATICAN CITY – One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials is being compelled to testify in public starting Sunday about clerical sex abuse, an unusu ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 11:24 pm
BEIRUT – A cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia went into effect across Syria on Saturday, marking the biggest international push to reduce viol ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 12:37 am
WASHINGTON – Marco Rubio released summaries of his last five years of tax filings on Saturday, revealing him to be a candidate with a senator's steady ...
Feb. 27, 2016 - 11:24 pm
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – President Barack Obama on Friday rejected relentless Republican criticism of his economic leadership, saying his policies are pay ...
Feb. 26, 2016 - 3:47 pm
DES MOINES, Iowa – Some Jeb Bush donors have been slow to swing behind Marco Rubio since Bush's exit from the Republican presidential race this weeken ...
Feb. 24, 2016 - 2:21 pm
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama accused Senate Republicans on Wednesday of putting the Supreme Court's credibility at risk if they make good on th ...
Feb. 24, 2016 - 11:52 am
WASHINGTON – Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that his party won't permit a vote on any Supreme Court nominee submitted by President ...
Feb. 23, 2016 - 10:23 am
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed to "once and for all" close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer remaini ...
Feb. 23, 2016 - 10:06 am
WASHINGTON – House Republicans urging a steep increase in the Pentagon's budget have received $10 million in campaign contributions over the course of ...
Feb. 22, 2016 - 12:46 pm
WASHINGTON – The history of Supreme Court nominations is dominated by tales of picks the Senate debated and approved with little angst. President Bara ...
Feb. 22, 2016 - 11:29 am
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