DeKalb County

Authorities in DeKalb County are warning residents that a police bomb squad will perform a series of controlled explosions in a quarry on Wednesday.

Officials at Northern Illinois University say that they intend to start in-person classes as scheduled on Monday, but said that there are protocols in place to potentially switch to remote-learning in the event of a surge in COVID cases at the school.

With the city of Chicago reporting more than 400 new cases of coronavirus per day, health officials have reinstituted a mask mandate for all residents age 2 and older, regardless of a person’s COVID vaccination status.

Video from Ryan Mallon shows a tornado that moved through Sycamore, Illinois – one of several tornadoes to touch down across the area Monday.

The National Weather Service says trained weather spotters have confirmed multiple tornado touchdowns as part of an outbreak of severe weather Monday in areas west of the city of Chicago. A series of tornado warnings were issued as storms moved into the area from southern Wisconsin. Some storms also fired in Illinois itself, with some areas seeing multiple waves of…

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DeKalb County will open a vaccination site in the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center next week with help from the Illinois National Guard, state officials announced Friday.

Beginning Monday, National Guard-led sites will be vaccinating residents eligible under Phase 1B, as well as sites at Jewel Osco and Walgreens, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said, noting that CVS is expected to “soon follow.”

A man living in Ohio has been arrested in connection with the 2016 murders of an elderly woman and her son in suburban Sycamore, authorities announced Tuesday. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

A man living in Ohio has been arrested in connection with the 2016 murders of an elderly woman and her son in suburban Sycamore, authorities announced Tuesday.

A man living in Ohio has been arrested in connection with the 2016 murders of an elderly woman and her son in suburban Sycamore, authorities announced Tuesday. Jonathan Hurst, a 51-year-old man who previously lived in Chicago but moved to Cincinnati, was taken into custody Monday and now faces two counts of first-degree murder, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s office said….

An Atlanta-area police officer who was captured on video repeatedly hitting a homeless woman inside a convenience store was indicted Thursday on felony charges, a prosecutor said. A grand jury indicted DeKalb County police Officer Phillip Larscheid, 29, on charges of aggravated assault and violation of his oath of office, county District Attorney Sherry Boston said. Reached by email, Larscheid’s...

Authorities have arrested a man suspected of crashing his car into two girls playing in the front yard of a Georgia home, then fleeing the scene, NBC News reported. One of the girls, 9-year-old LaDerihanna Holmes, was seriously injured in the hit-and-run crash Friday evening. Video of the scene showed a black sedan speed through a stop sign, on the...

Snow began to fall early Wednesday, threatening to make roads across the Chicago area a wintry mess once again ahead of the morning commute.

A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for the entire Chicago area as an overnight system looks to bring snow and ice accumulations and potentially dangerous travel conditions.

If Stacey Abrams becomes America’s first black female governor on Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter and Oprah Winfrey could be the keys to her success. Her ability to win over a 94-year-old white man with deep ties to the rural South and one of the world’s most famous black women who rarely dabbles in campaign-style politics highlights Abrams’ strategy to...

Nearly twice as many early or absentee ballots have been counted in the 2018 elections, already far outpacing the total from 2014, NBC News reported. More than 24 million votes were counted with six days to go before Election Day. At the same point in 2014, just shy of 13 million votes had been counted, signifying a shift among voters...

Drawing on her years of military experience, Maureen Heard was careful to follow all the rules when she filled out an absentee ballot for the 2016 election. She read the instructions thoroughly, signed where she was supposed to, put the ballot in its envelope and dropped it off at her county elections office in New Hampshire. She then left town...

A man was arrested Friday morning for aggravated stalking and threatening to kill his ex-wife in west suburban Cortland.