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DeKalb gives back to the community

DeKalb County Community Foundation supported fifteen local nonprofit and community organizations with grants totaling $191,500. Community Need Grants are disbursed to organizations who are in need of funding in DeKalb County. The grants are given out in the fall and spring of each year. Applicants selected align with the grant’s interest areas: Arts and Culture,. ....

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Editorial: DeKalb's 'Barb City'; not 'Parking Lot Haven' – Northern Star

On Sept. 25, the contract for the city of DeKalb to purchase the building that was once the first barbed wire factory was approved. At the same time, an insulting conversation about turning the building into a parking lot ensued. The property at 128-140 S. Second St. has a long history with the city of. ....

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Event to be held on digitizing historic articles

DeKalb NIU’s Department of Special Collections and Archives will be hosting an event to learn more about the digitization process of older Northern Star Articles. The event will be taking place at 12 p.m. April 23 at the Glidden Homestead. Associate professor and department head Bradley Wiles will be presenting on the actual digitization. ....

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How invention of barbed wire in DeKalb established NIU

Northern Star
DeKALB – At face value, driving down Lincoln Highway seems pretty standard. Local restaurants like Pizza Villa, 824 W Lincoln Highway, and Molly’s Eatery & Drinkery, 1000 W Lincoln Highway, are at the center of DeKalb alongside bigger restaurant chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Burger King. In the middle of it all is the Glidden Historical Center, 921 W Lincoln Highway, and the Homestead Barn, a site with incredible historical significance: the site of early barbed wire development.
Barbed wire as an effective and patented device starts right at the Glidden Homestead with the inventor Joseph F. Glidden, said Robert Glover, the executive director of the Glidden Homestead Historical Center. Glidden first arrived in 1845, and lived in a wood cabin right where the Burger King, 913 W Lincoln Highway, is located. It wasn’t until 1861 when Glidden built the house, and the barn around 1870. ....

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