Community

North Avenue Baptist Church became somewhat of a safe haven for Black people in DeKalb...

While not a lot of information is known about Samuel Crosswell, research shows that he...

Mildred Poole Stewart, who was born and grew up in Sycamore, graduated from Sycamore High...

Above image: Shabbona Grove School, 1921. Photo courtesy Shabbona-Lee-Rollo Historical Society. The Caldwell family story...

In their anthology, Four Hundred Souls, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain write about...

When migrant Latinx families permanently settled in DeKalb County, they were not formally segregated like...

Pastor Leroy Mitchell served at the North Avenue Baptist church in 1986. A year later,...

The Israel of God’s Church, White Horse Army [1] was first established in St. Louis,...

The 1924 Sandborn Insurance Map of Sycamore, illustrates houses along the three blocks of North...