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An indictment for a man charged with first-degree murder in his 5-month-old son’s death is on file, but he has not yet been arraigned.

Officials believe a lightning strike Thursday morning could be responsible for a fire in a residential section of Sycamore that impacted power in the area.

A Chicago man has been charged with 10 felonies after DeKalb police allege he was holding a handgun while resisting arrest after fleeing police in a car and on foot, according to court documents.

A fire erupted in a loading bay Saturday at a DeKalb Target, Fire Chief Luke Howieson confirmed to Shaw Local, prompting a brief store closure.

Part of downtown Sycamore’s historic district was created by a woman who broke glass ceilings in DeKalb County decades before the women’s suffrage movement. Dr. Letitia Westgate, from Hampshire, also later became Aurora's first woman chemist.

Hundreds marched down Sycamore Road Saturday in DeKalb, joining a nationwide No Kings protest against federal policies. Some said it was their first time protesting, and criticized President Donald Trump for the Iran war and rising gas prices.

A McHenry man is accused of secretly filming people from a bathroom stall at a Sycamore grocery store, according to DeKalb County court filings.

Update: Two people were hospitalized after they suffered minor injuries during a crash Wednesday at the intersection of Somonauk and McGirr roads in Hinckley, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.

Senior economist, economic advisor and director of the Economic Mobility Project at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Kristen Broady, said Wednesday that recent and current events in Iran, Venezuela and Cuba have made economic outlooks more difficult to project.

A man who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of drugs and causing a 2024 crash that killed sheriff’s deputy, veteran and mother, Christina Musil, was denied an appeal to his sentence on Tuesday.

A 26-year-old man was critically injured, hospitalized and later flown to a second hospital after being hurt in a tree versus vehicle crash in north Sandwich Sunday evening, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.

Sandwich resident Brighid Reid, 14, a member of the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution, will participate in the National Spelling Bee inside Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., in two months.

Former Sycamore Fire Chief Bart Gilmore was placed on paid administrative leave a week before city officials informed the public of their decision to move on from nearly three years of Gilmore’s leadership at the Sycamore Fire Department, emails obtained by Shaw Local show.

A DeKalb man, who admitted to police that he hit a cat in the face with a hammer, was sentenced this month after pleading guilty to aggravated animal cruelty, according to court documents.

Sycamore officials said nothing this week about what led to the change in leadership at the top of the Sycamore Fire Department during the first Sycamore City Council meeting since an interim Sycamore Fire Chief was hired.