The annual music fest prides itself on not being genre-specific, accepting everything from solo-acoustic acts like Mark Rose to the likes of Talking Heads cover band This Must Be The Band. more ›

Escape the city this weekend and experience these wine events that are just a short drive away. more ›

Devon Butler, a linebacker for Northern Illinois University who was wounded in a drive-by shooting on April 5, announced during a press conference in DeKalb on Friday that will not be playing in 2011. Butler was released from a Rockford-area hospital last Tuesday, but he has a long recovery in front of him, having suffered from a collapsed lung from the shooting. He explained during the press conference that he will start physical therapy in six months, and in the meantime, he will be concentrating on classwork and regaining his strength. "I'm going to take my redshirt year," said Butler, a junior from Pembroke Pines, Florida, via the Chicago Sun-Times. "The doctors have laid out what I need to do to get back to the classroom and also the football team." more ›

After being hit by a drunk driver several years ago, David Kuhn of DeKalb, a devoted runner, slowly began losing his eyesight. He is now legally blind and needs a guide with him when he runs. When his sighted guide for the Chicago Marathon next weekend had to cancel, Kuhn's plans were derailed, and he told NBC Chicago, "I went into full panic mode." more ›

A single-engine plane crashed at the Sandwich Airport in DeKalb County yesterday afternoon, killing two. According to the Chicago Tribune, Randy Hougham was taking friends for rides in his vintage 1946 Ercoupe 415-C. Two flights went well, but the third ended in disaster. The plane crashed and caught fire shortly before 2 p.m., killing Houghham, 53, and his passenger, recent Bradley University graduate Lauren Hamilton, 22. Hougham's brother-in-law, Bruce Burlingame, said, "He was a great guy, a good family man, a good dad. He was just a normal guy who did construction work and had a plane." more ›

We all know legal representation can be expensive. So maybe a you-scratch-my-back, I-defend-yours isn't the worst idea in the world. Unless you're DeKalb attorney Scott Robert Erwin, who accepted client payment in the form of nude dancing. Would you believe that's not cool with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission? Erwin has been suspended from practicing law for 15 months. more ›

Horse slaughter for human consumption shall remain illegal in our fine state, now that the SCOTUS has declined to hear Cavel International's appeal. Cavel's DeKalb horse-slaughtering facility shut down last year after Illinois passed a state law banning the practice. more ›