Shabbona News

A wind turbine stands in the background as anti-wind farm protesters stand on the corner of County Line Road and Lee Road in Lee.

After dealing with an ice storm that left power outages, fallen tree branches and cars in ditches in its wake, DeKalb County dug out Sunday from a winter storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow on the county.

Sixth-grader Cindy Sierra practices how to use chopsticks during Shabbona Middle School's first culture lunch Friday Dec.

Rodney Kyler has dropped out of the Republican primary race for DeKalb County Board District 1 against Charles Foster.

The substation on Haumesser Road in southwestern DeKalb County. It can be hard to see electrons zooming through a copper wire.

DeKALB – After only a short reprieve, the snows returned to DeKalb County on Wednesday afternoon.

Seneca downed MVK while Coal City beat Shabbona in eighth-grade boys basketball.

The Indian Creek High School theater class invites the public to its upcoming Christmas play, “The Toys Take Over Christmas,” written by Patricia Clapp, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. Dec.15, in the Indian Creek High School gymnasium, 506 S. Shabbona Road in Shabbona.

Al Roloff stands on the Cemetery Road bridge where the western tributary of the South Branch of the Kishwaukee begins, north of Shabbona.

By Kate Schott - kschott@daily-chronicle.com Judges at the 2009 OCB Midwest State Bodybuilding and Figure Competition, held Saturday at the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, view five of the competitors in the female bodybuilding portion of the event during an early-afternoon judging session.

Sarah Chapman, a senior at Indian Creek High School in Shabbona, is starting her third year of serving on the Student Advisory Council for the Illinois State Board of Education.

Six students in Grundy County have had their essays selected as winners in the “What Charity and Philanthropy Mean to Me” essay contest.

With Alderman Randy Larson opposed, the Morris City Council Monday agreed to pay Ayer's Electric $76,660 to install traffic lights at Liberty and Chapin streets.

The lounge at the Quality Inn, the former Holiday Inn, will reopen as The Pub by Chapin's. At the recommendation of the Judiciary and License Committee, the Morris City Council Monday agreed to increase the number of Class D liquor licenses from 11 to 12 and award the license to Dianne Breslar, doing business as The Pub by Chapin's. She explained ...

Mark G. Thiel, a Marquette University archivist, will detail the lives of notable Native Americans of 19th- and 20th-century Chicago in a talk at 1 p.m. Sunday, November 8, at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 Central Street, Evanston.

Former Aurora Alderman Bill Cross has decided not to seek the GOP nomination for Congress from the 14th Congressional District.

SHABBONA – A Lockport man was taken to the hospital with hypothermia after falling out of his boat on Shabbona Lake Saturday night, according to the Illinois Conservation Police.

Kaneland Knights soccer weathered a lean week to take two out of three recent contests.

At the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener State Conference held Sept.

LaSalle celebrates Abe Lincoln Days this weekend at the Illinois and Michigan Canal.