Hope: Booker T. Washington comes to DeKalb
On January 29, 1899 Booker T. Washington came to DeKalb and spoke to a large...
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Exclusion: Racial Covenants, Sycamore
There is evidence of racial covenants in Sycamore. The Fox Subdivision was created in 1927....
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Exclusion: Redlining and Racial Covenants, DeKalb
The second generation of Ellwoods included a racial covenant in the Ellfield Addition, which was...
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Hope: Migrant Workers in DeKalb County, 1960s
The DeKalb County Journal had several articles in the late 1960s about migrant workers. The...
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Hope: Latino Migration Story, using census records
While the larger trend of Latinos coming to DeKalb County starts in the 1960s, there...
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Hope: Henry and Julia (Judy) Beard, Sycamore
The Beard family’s story of hope goes back to the Civil War. Both Henry and...
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Hope: Fanny Ruth Patterson, Hinckley and Northern Illinois University
The story of Fanny Ruth Patterson is one of hope. She was a graduate of...
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Hope: Chicago Insulated Wire (later Anaconda), Sycamore
The story of Chicago Insulated Wire (later Anaconda) is complicated. In 1917, Sycamore manufacturing company,...
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Hope: Overview
DeKalb Migration Story Except for Native Americans, DeKalb County residents’ families have emigrated from other...
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