West Nile virus was recently detected in mosquitoes in DeKalb County. Mosquito-borne illnesses kill hundreds of thousands of people a year. Some historians believe they’ve killed about half of all ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- The DeKalb County sheriff said an explosion destroyed a home and sparked a fire in Earlville Tuesday afternoon. The sheriff's office said they received calls about the ...

Musil also spent for four years in the Army National Guard as a military police officer who served in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009 before her life was cut short. The crash, involving a sheriff's ...

A federal grand jury indicted DeKalb Schools Superintendent Devon Horton on 17 counts including fraud, theft, and tax evasion. Prosecutors allege Horton steered contracts to associates, approved false ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ill. — Illinois currently has no federally recognized tribal land within its borders, but that could change in the coming months. A bill pending in the General Assembly this year would ...

A 3.4 magnitude earthquake Monday morning struck near Somonauk, Illinois, a small town in DeKalb County, according to the United States Geological Survey. "Information for those who were woken up a ...

DEKALB, Ill. (CBS) -- Police officers shot a man they said was threatening officers at knifepoint at a car dealership in DeKalb. This was the second incident in which police shot someone in DeKalb ...

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with DeKalb County, an area which may ...

DeKalb County reported its first Measles case of the year this week, as the disease — once eradicated in the U.S. — continues to spread in several states. Health officials are investigating the case ...