Shabbona News

Potawatomi Nation land manager Chris Decoteau describes the growing process for the native prairie grasses to DeKalb County Building Trades President Matt Swanson.

The special education cooperatives in Will and Grundy counties are making big decisions this summer on what to do with rather large bonuses of federal stimulus money received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Shabbona Middle School hasn't been a true "middle school" in four years, ever since the grade school board made major budget cuts, including axing the programs and staffing that distinguished Shabbona as a middle school, versus a junior high.

Indian Creek High School student Kathleen Chester with Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center board president Sam Harris and Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen.

Love INC volunteers David and Barbara Ellison tell attendees at the organization's open house Sunday the story of how they became involved.

Police said the burglary of the truck was reported June 19. The owner reported several power tools, including DeWalt saws, drills, batteries and chargers for the tools, a Senco staple gun and other items, such as saw blades and drill bits, were taken.

The FBI says a second defendant indicted following an investigation into the theft and illegal trafficking of ancient artifacts from the Four Corners area has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

A New Mexico man recently indicted for selling stolen American Indian artifacts was found early Friday morning near a Shabbona school with what authorities say were two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to his chest.

A group of about three dozen residents likely will file a lawsuit in appeal of the county board's decision to grant a permit to an energy company to build a wind farm in the county, an attorney representing the group said Thursday.

Rural crop assistant Duane Daugherty plants sections of former farmland with with seeds of native grasses outside Shabbona, Ill., on Tuesday June 16, 2009.

DeKALB – In anticipation of a large crowd, the regular meeting of the DeKalb County Board has been moved to a larger venue.

When children interact with those of older generations, their lives are enriched.

JEFF KRAGE/FOR THE DAILY-CHRONICLE Indian Creek graduate Nicole Swanson takes a picture with Audrey Latimer in the Learning Center before the start of Sunday's graduation ceremonies.

Ottawa St. Patrick School"s second-, third- and fourth-graders went to Shabbona State Park near Waterman, on a fieldtrip April 22 to celebrate Earth Day.

The very purpose of an explosion is to blow something apart. And for a while now, the air over Shabbona has been explosive with the controversy that surrounds the possible establishment of an Indian reservation on two 640 acres tracts of land on one side of town and the possible construction of a wind farm on the other.

Two people were injured in a crash on Leland Road south of Preserve Road early Monday morning, according to a statement from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office.

The commodities market is starting to realize the impact the late planting season could have on corn yields this fall, University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrell Good said Wednesday.

On June 5-7, Indian Valley Theatre presents “Phantom of the Sandwich Opera House.” A mystery by Eileen Moushey, “Phantom” is the creation of Moushey and director Kris Pagoria.

Sexual education should be mandatory in all Illinois public high schools and cover "the real deal'' -- not just "abstinence-only,'' a statewide Student Advisory Council is expected to recommend today.

Indian Creek 9, LaMoille/Ohio 2: The Lady Lions posted a pair of runs in top of the first to take an early 2-0 lead, but could not manage any more runs as they fell to the Lady Timberwolves in Shabbona on Tuesday.