Dekalb County News

Diana Beams of Community Coordinated Child Care helps a group of children pick out a donated book to take home.

A rural DeKalb County man has been arrested after federal agents allegedly found thousands of pornographic images of children on his computer.

SYCAMORE – The DeKalb County Board passed a balanced budget on Wednesday – and avoided a $1.7 million deficit – by transferring nearly the same amount from a special fund into the general fund.

SYCAMORE – Two men and one woman have been arrested in connection with a July theft of $10,000 from a resident's bank account.

Deputy Kelly King of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office prepares a dose of medication for an inmate at the jail.

Steward man charged with molesting girl: 45-year-old in prison for molesting the same girl in DeKalb County By Tara Becker tbecker@svnmail.com 800-798-4085, ext.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, firms with fewer than 500 employees employ about half of all private sector workers and have generated 60 to 80 percent of all new jobs in each of the last 10 years.

DeKALB – Three candidates are vying for a newly created resident circuit judge position.

DeKALB – The Daily Chronicle will have a new editor when Jason Schaumburg takes the reins Nov.

A Lombard man was killed Wednesday after a train mishap. Kevin C. Jablonsky, 21, was struck by an eastbound Union Pacific Train approximately a qurater of a mile east of the Nelson Road crossing, which is west of DeKalb.

Pictured is a gravestone in the DeKalb County Cemetery between Small's Furniture City and the strip mall that houses Michael's. DeKalb County historian Phyllis Kelley said the county has used this cemetery for more than 100 years to bury those who had no money or interment plans at the time of their death.

The wide, open spaces of a golf course served as Pete Leuzinger's backdrop for 31 years as a course superintendent, but now the wide, open spaces of DeKalb County cornfields play that role.

DeKALB – Two DeKalb men were being held in the DeKalb County Jail in lieu of $75,000 each, charged with robbing a group of teenagers Friday.

UPDATE: Police say James McKinney is under arrest. He was found in DeKalb County, Illinois.

The police report does not include every crime in a community. In some cases, no police report is filed, and sometimes police withhold information on pending investigations.

DeKALB – Ten of the 40 public schools in DeKalb County did not meet state standards in reading and math this year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

SYCAMORE – The man charged with fleeing the scene of a fatal crash Sunday had no license to drive, police and prosecutors said Monday.

DeKalb County sheriff's police said a vehicle struck a utility pole in front of 23557 Airport Road about 3:42 a.m. Sunday.

James McKinney, 49, was originally picked up on Friday by DeKalb County authorities on a routine traffic stop.

DeKALB – There were slightly fewer major crimes in DeKalb County in 2008, compared with 2007.