Category: Community
The DeKalb Festival Chorus is welcoming Steven Grives as its new director for the 2014-2015 season. Grives joins DFC as the sixth music director in the chorus’s four-decade history. He replaces Seth Houston, who has accepted an out-of-state position. The chorus invites interested singers to join DFC this fall by attending the first rehearsal on...
NIU President Doug Baker’s call for stronger connections between the university and its host community has generated dozens of ideas from enthusiastic supporters of both town and gown. In just 12 months, the number of active “communiversity” projects has more than doubled, with many more ideas waiting in the wings. Rather than limiting new initiatives,...
“It was the best week I’ve ever had,” Oak Lawn High School junior Damian Samsonowicz said of the Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences’ 28th annual Speech Camp, which provided campers the chance to improve their speech talents while developing life skills that will strengthen them throughout their academic and professional careers. The six-day, residential...
Earlier this week at DeKalb’s State of the City event, I spoke about the tremendous opportunity for collaboration between Northern Illinois University and our community to promote our common interests. High on this list is the goal of creating a welcoming environment full of spaces and activities for students that create memories and the desire...
For the second consecutive fall, NIU and the City of DeKalb have partnered to display window clings at DeKalb businesses featuring the NIU football program. NIU President Dr. Douglas Baker, NIU Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Sean Frazier and DeKalb Mayor John Rey, along with Huskie football legends Bob Heimerdinger and George Bork, unveiled the first...
Taking a walk through the eastern and central parts of campus can be a bit tricky these days as those areas are abuzz with more than a dozen projects designed to dramatically improve the appearance of campus. The importance of the work goes far beyond improving “curb appeal,” however. Each project was specifically selected for...
Northern Illinois University will partner with the City of DeKalb and area businesses in highlighting the history and tradition of NIU football through window displays throughout DeKalb’s downtown business district. A ceremonial unveiling of the first display will take place during a 1 p.m. ceremony Tuesday, July 22, at the Lincoln Inn, 240 E. Lincoln...
Northern Illinois University’s Lorado Taft Field Campus, best known by scores of suburban students as the site of their favorite middle school field trip, will be transformed into a Native American/Pioneer village July 19-20 during the weekend’s Oregon Trail Days Festival. Demonstrators will exhibit soap- and candle-making, blacksmithing, wood carving, spinning, and lace- and broom-making near...
The community is invited to the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Family Fun Day at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at Sycamore Community Park, 940 E. State St. The event will feature a variety of activities, including live musical entertainment, a bouncy house, a climbing wall, face painting, a magician and use of the park’s tennis and...
What’s in the water? Passersby have noticed that wooden arches have popped up in the Illinois and Michigan Canal near Ninth Street in Lockport. John Siblik, a Lemont native and alumnus of Northern Illinois University, banded branches together to make these 101 sculptures, which extend a half mile in the water as part of Lockport’s...
Rich Holly, dean of the NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts, has received a $2,500 grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation for the second consecutive year. The funds from the grant will help in the partnership created with Arts Midwest to bring the Arts Midwest World Fest to DeKalb County during the upcoming school year....
Would you like to help positively and directly impact the lives of youth in our DeKalb community? Camp Power is a summer program created to address the issues of increased youth crime and child hunger in University Village during the summer months. This is a collaborative effort between NIU, University Village and many DeKalb community...
