The Lincoln Highway Buy-Way will be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, August 5-7, with most sales on Friday and Saturday. Click here! The DeKalb Area Women’s Center is taking reservations for sale space all this week, for only $5 for the whole weekend. Call 815-758-1351 or e-mail: dawc@niu.edu.
Category: General Happenings
‘MacGyver’ Bombs Found in Rockford
[Update 5:45 p.m.: Authorities have two teen suspects.] No one was hurt when a homemade bomb exploded inside Woodman’s grocery store early Tuesday. Another bomb, undetonated, was found inside a car in the Wal-Mart parking lot later the same day.
South Beloit May Dump Its Labor Attorney
The mayor of South Beloit is considering taking over negotiations with city unions, citing slow results and large expense. Mayor Randy Kirichkow estimates that the city has spent $320,000 on attorney’s fees in the last five years negotiating with the three city unions, which include the police officers, police sergeants and Street Department employees. Kirichkow…
Chrysler Plans to Expand Belvidere Plant
Rockford Register Star reports that Chrysler intends to expand its Belvidere plant by 500,000 square feet to accommodate a larger body shop. Building might begin as early as this summer, and require 20,000 or more construction work hours. How many manufacturing jobs the expansion might ultimately create is not yet known. This must be really…
The $10,000,000+ Yard Sale
Yes, you read that right, the $10,000,000 yard sale. Last week at the Lincoln Highway Association annual conference in Dixon, one guest speaker was Mike Hocker, the Executive Director of the of the Ohio Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, and one of the key organizers of the annual Buy-Way in Ohio. Mike, who says he does…
Happy Dad’s Day
Migration Map
Click here to get to Forbes.com’s interactive migration map. The IRS reports U.S. inter-county migrations of 10 persons or more, and the Forbes map represents its data from 2008. [H/T J.W.]
Lincoln Highway Association Seeks Memories, Art, and Photos
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Kay Shelton, Illinois State Director Lincoln Highway Association 1006 N. 15th St. DeKalb, IL 60115 Phone: 815-748-7211 E-mail: kayshelton@hotmail.com Lincoln Highway Association Seeks Memories, Art, and Photos
Grassroots? Please.
The National Coffee Party has arrived in DeKalb, and if you missed the first meeting, do not despair. Visit the website where you can sign a pledge that you will not call other people bad names, and put together a “Sphere” toy in time for the next meet-up. We are 100% grassroots. No lobbyists here.…
“Rubes:” Wind turbines generate animosity, health concerns among some in DeKalb County – chicagotribune.com
Wind turbines generate animosity, health concerns among some in DeKalb County – chicagotribune.com Posted using ShareThis I stumbled upon an article in the “Chicago Tribune” about the wind farms in DeKalb County. I made the mistake of reading their comments. I already knew the “Trib” allows nastier comments than the “Daily Chronicle.” Anyway, a lot…