Recently members of the DeKalb Police Department and community members held a benefit event at Mardi Gras Lanes to raise funds for an education fund. Funds raised will be divided between the Policemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association and the education fund that’s been established for the daughter of Tom Reilly. Reilly passed away in July of 2015, leaving behind his …
As winter approaches each year, the DeKalb Park District Sports and Recreation Center gears up to serve as an indoor recreation destination for the DeKalb community and beyond. Opened in 2000, the Sports and Rec Center features a large fieldhouse with field turf, two gymnasiums, as well as activity and dance rooms. The Sports and Rec Center is host to …
Local team leading DeKalb’s efforts in America’s Best Communities competition calls on neighbors to help with final push to share why city should win America’s Best Communities, sponsored by Frontier, DISH, CoBank and The Weather Channel, aims to revitalize small towns and rural communities across the country DeKalb, IL, JANUARY 4, 2016 – In a final push to prove DeKalb should …
Glidden Florist is #proudlydekalb because DeKalb has been the home of our business for over 75 years. We have been reinventing ourselves every 10 years or so – We have grown with the DeKalb Community! So we are #proudlydekalb as DeKalb reinvents itself yet again to be a town where community members encourage and support each other every day – …
Blacksmiths worked by hand with red-hot steel to create graceful pieces of beauty and elegance at the Glidden Homestead. The Blacksmith Club at the Glidden Homestead and Historical Center hosted a Hammer-In on September 13, 2015. The Blacksmith Club worked on six forges around the site and demonstrated the trade, techniques, materials, and finished pieces. The twenty minute lessons and …
Going Above and Beyond to Reach Success in Leadership and Literacy It was an exciting day this fall for Lisa Feuerbach’s 5th grade students at Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School in DeKalb. George McCaskey, Chairman and Owner of the Chicago Bears, visited the school to speak to the students about the importance of leadership and literacy. When McCaskey was asked what …
86 years ago the Egyptian Theatre opened her doors on December 10, 1929. When the Egyptian opened in 1929 it was one of over 100 Egyptian themed theatre’s around the country. Today the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb is one of only six Egyptian Theatre’s left in the United States and the only one East of the Rocky Mountains. The fad …