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