Sycamore News

Sycamore United Methodist will host the Blackwood Brothers in concert on Wednesday.

While Halloween and Christmas usually receive the most attention during the fall and winter seasons, Thanksgiving Day in Sycamore this year will receive its share of the spotlight.

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.

A mom-and-pop coin shop that has operated on Sycamore's main street for 35 years is closing for good and the owners Bob and Sue Rozycki are moving to Arizona for some time in the sun.

SYCAMORE – About a dozen people were waiting when the county clerk's office opened Monday morning so that they could turn in their papers and make their candidacy official.

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.

SYCAMORE – A DeKalb man facing charges that stem from a Tuesday evening stabbing was being held Wednesday at the DeKalb County Jail on $200,000 bail.

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

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

SYCAMORE – Two men have been charged with robbing a third man early Sunday morning in DeKalb.

SYCAMORE – A man has been charged in connection with fleeing the scene of an early morning crash that left one man dead and another hospitalized.

DeKALB – No one was injured in a fire at an apartment complex late Friday night.

Giles' bail was set at $90,000. He is to appear in court 9 a.m. Nov. 4. * Felony driving charge: Joseph P. Corcoran, 23, of 627 Algona Ave., Elgin, was arrested Thursday on a felony charge of driving on a suspended license.

SYCAMORE – The county has added a small corner lot that is surrounded by parking lots to its Sycamore campus.

This year's Pumpkin Festival 10,000-meter run is an international affair. National Guardsman Nathan Taylor, a Sycamore native, has arranged for a corresponding Pumpkin Fest run at the military base in Kuwait where he is stationed.

Sycamore Police are asking for the public's help in catching the person or people responsible for ongoing vandalism at Larson Park, at the south end of Larson Street in the Maple Terrace subdivision.

Sycamore's most ambitious annual party, the Pumpkin Festival, begins Thursday and continues through Sunday.

Provided photo Stage Coach Players' annual Pumpkin Festival Children's Costume Contest, at noon Sunday will be held near the parade route starting point on Becker Street and Park Place in the Ideal Industries lot in Sycamore.

A "Freedom Salute" ceremony on Sunday morning at Sycamore High School honored Illinois Army National Guard soldiers who served a one-year deployment in Afghanistan.

Fourteen seventh grade students from Sycamore Junior High School participated in their first annual Model United Nations simulation at Mt.