DeKALB – Monday’s city council meeting featured approval of funding for construction and renovations. The storefront for the upcoming dispensary at 818 W. Lincoln Highway – the Junction Shopping Center – was approved for a $25,000 reimbursement of funds from the city’s Fund 400 Architectural Improvement Program. The funding was awarded to aid in funding.
DeKALB – NIU will contribute $2.5 million to the city for the usage of the Huskie Bus Line for 2024. The five-year intergovernmental agreement for the university to use the buses for an integrated transit system operated by the city recently ended in 2023. NIU has agreed to extend the contract five more years to.
DeKALB – Residents of DeKalb could learn how to become entrepreneurs and learn essential business skills after the city council approved a new initiative. Opportunity DeKalb is a non-profit community development corporation created by the Annie Glidden North Revitalization Plan, that implements “revitalization” efforts in the Annie Glidden North neighborhood. The corporation had its $125,000.
DeKalb city leaders are backing a Northern Illinois University plan to redevelop a vacant city-owned lot, set to be the ‘largest privately funded project’ in university history behind only Barsema Hall, said NIU Chief of Staff Matt Streb.