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An NIU student checks her cell phone in the snow.
UPDATE: The snow-related parking prohibition has ended as of 1:30 pm. — The City of DeKalb has established that snow emergency routes are in effect. Vehicle owners are asked to move their cars so the snow plow drivers can do their work. Vehicles in violation of the snow emergency routes can receive parking tickets and...
Photo of a snowblower
With a huge snowstorm bearing down on the Northeast today, residents from New Jersey to Maine are preparing for two feet or more of the white stuff to blanket their homes, roads, schools, hospitals and more. The blizzard warning already has canceled nearly 1,500 flights. And how, in 2015, will everywhere from New York to...
Campus snowball fun – Winter 2013
Last year’s polar vortex caused some of the most severe winter weather Illinois has seen in the past 50 years, and the recent cold snap has everyone wondering what this winter will bring. Is the polar vortex part of global warming or proof that it doesn’t exist? STEM Café invites you to find out at...
Snow on the NIU campus
With the unseasonably frigid air this week, memories resurfaced of last winter’s biting cold, brought on by the dreaded polar vortex. But as NIU climatologist David Changnon points out, it’s not simply the cold that makes us miserable. Changnon, who has been studying the impacts of last winter for an upcoming publication, can describe the...
Photo of cars driving on a snowy road
Due to the National Weather Service’s heavy snow forecast, the City of DeKalb is highly encouraging residents and visitors to use off-street parking. It is likely that a snow emergency will be declared Tuesday, March 5, with the possibility of a total parking prohibition for the duration of the snow cleanup operation. Residents can use...
Photo of parking ticket on windshield
New snowfall has exceeded 2 inches. Pursuant to Chapter 51, Section 51.21 of the City of DeKalb Municipal Code, the assistant director of public works has declared a “parking prohibition” on all designated snow routes in the city, thereby activating a parking prohibition on all designated snow emergency routes in effect today beginning at 2...
Students walk across the snowy NIU campus
NIU campus locations and offices are open for normally scheduled activities. A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for moderate to heavy snow and blowing snow for NIU-Naperville (DuPage County) and NIU-Hoffman Estates (Cook County) until 9 a.m. CST Friday. NIU’s main campus in DeKalb, as well as NIU-Rockford and the Lorado Taft Field Campus remain under...
Photo of parking ticket on windshield
New snowfall has exceeded 2 inches. Pursuant to Chapter 51, Section 51.21 of the City of DeKalb Municipal Code, the assistant director of Public Works has declared a “PARKING PROHIBITION” on all designated snow routes in the City of DeKalb thereby activating a parking prohibition on all designated snow emergency routes in effect today beginning...
City of DeKalb logo
The City of DeKalb announced today that it has put into effect a city-wide snow emergency from 5 p.m. Tuesday until further notice. According to the National Weather Service, conditions will deteriorate rapidly with travel likely to become virtually impossible at times Tuesday night until mid-day Wednesday. “We ask that residents stay home and off...
Kris Povlsen
DeKalb Mayor Kris Povlsen released this declaration today. DECLARATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY I, Kris Povlsen, Mayor of the City of DeKalb, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, in accordance with Section 51.22 of the City of DeKalb Municipal Cole, do hereby designate and declare a state of local emergency in the City of...