Officials from the Morton Arboretum in Lisle covered trees on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in preparation for the emergence of cicadas. This year is remarkable because two broods are emerging simultaneously for the first time in 221 years.
The Sycamore Chamber of Commerce welcomed a panel of speakers from various city and county organizations Wednesday to talk about their accomplishments from the past year as well as goals and challenges for the future during the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce State of the Community Address.
The DeKalb High School baseball team hosted conference foe Naperville Central Tuesday afternoon.
Indian Creek hosted Hinckley-Big Rock in a Little 10 baseball matchup Monday in Shabbona.
A group of about twenty demonstrators marched on campus at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb Monday, April 29, 2024, to protest the Israel-Hamas War.
Jonathan Hurst appeared in Judge Marcy Buick’s courtroom at the DeKalb County Courthouse Monday as prosecutors prepare for his expected June double murder trial in the 2016 slayings of Sycamore mother and son, Patricia A. Wilson, 85 and Robert J. Wilson, 64. The trial will open almost eight years after the Wilsons were found brutally beaten to death inside their home.
Ex-police officer James Corralejo, of DeKalb, took the stand in front of Judge Philip Montgomery Monday to deny allegations that he consumed alcohol after prosecutors alleged he tampered with his ankle monitor after it detected alcohol six times in March and April. Corralejo is on release pending charges that he drove drunk and caused a Nov. 5, 2023, crash that killed DeKalb woman Graciela Reza Contreras, 59.
Check out some of the best pictures captured by Daily Chronicle photographers for Shaw Local News Network the week of April 19-25.
The Kaneland baseball team traveled to Sycamore Thursday for the deciding game in their important Interstate 8 series.