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DeKalb County, Illinois

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46newspaper titles

0digitized titles

18historic places

1800earliest paper

1837formed

100,420pop. 2020

65cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 46 newspaper titles published in DeKalb County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1800. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 18 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Sycamore, De Kalb, Earlville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in DeKalb

Library of Congress

46 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
The Daily Argus	Sandwich	1800–1899
The Genoa Issue	Genoa	1800–1999
The Malta Chronicle	De Kalb	1800–1999
The Malta Record	Malta	1800–1999
The De Kalb County Sentinel	Sycamore	1850–1861
Dekalb Co. Republican Sentinel	Sycamore	1857–1859
Dekalb Weekly Times	De Kalb	1860–1999
De Kalb County News	De Kalb	1867–1899
City Weekly	Sycamore	1872–1879
The Enterprise	Cortland	1877–1999
Dekalb Daily Index	De Kalb	1878–1899
Hinckley Review	Hinckley	1878–1985
The Free Press	Sycamore	1878–1999
De Kalb County Chronicle	De Kalb	1879–1885
The Evening Star	De Kalb	1880–1999
The Argus	Sandwich	1882–1885
The De Kalb Review	De Kalb	1883–1999
The De Kalb Chronicle	De Kalb	1885–1895
De Kalb Evening Chronicle	De Kalb	1895–1907
De Kalb Co. Democrat	Sycamore	1898–1999
The Genoa Journal	Genoa	1900–1904
The Midweek	De Kalb	1900–?
The Kingston Herald	Kingston	1901–1999
The Genoa Republican	Genoa	1902–1904
Genoa Republican-Journal	Genoa	1904–1919
The De Kalb Advertiser	De Kalb	1904–1919
The Dekalb Chronicle	De Kalb	1907–1909
The Dekalb Daily News	De Kalb	1907–1999
The Dekalb Daily Chronicle	De Kalb	1909–1970
The Dekalb Daily Advertiser	De Kalb	1910–1999
De Kalb Daily Independent	De Kalb	1915–1999
The Genoa Republican	Genoa	1919–1970
De Kalb County Express	Shabbona	1920–?
De Kalb County Leader	De Kalb	1925–1925
The Kirkland Enterprise	Kirkland	1931–1999
Dekalb Sentinel	De Kalb	1936–?
County Seat Chieftain	Sycamore	1948–1999
Free Press	Sandwich	1963–1970
Dekalb County Journal	De Kalb	1970–1971
The Daily Chronicle	De Kalb	1970–?
Genoa Kingston Kirkland News	Genoa	1972–2004
Country Courier	Hinckley	1991–2000
Kishwaukee Independent	Sycamore	1992–1993
Genoa Journal	Genoa	2000–?
Dekalb County News	Sycamore	2004–2005
The Malta Mail	De Kalb	?–

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18001856191319692026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

16 of 18 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

18 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Ashelford Hall	Esmond	Building	1995
Brower, Adolphus W., House	Sycamore	Building	1979
Chicago and Northwestern Depot	Sycamore	Building	1978
Cook, President John Williston, Mansion	DeKalb	Building	2025
Egyptian Theatre	De Kalb	Building	1978
Ellwood Mansion	De Kalb	Building	1975
Elmwood Cemetery Gates	Sycamore	Structure	1978
Glidden, Joseph F., House	De Kalb	Building	1973
Gurler, George H., House	De Kalb	Building	1979
Haish Memorial Library	De Kalb	Building	1980
Marsh, William W., House	Sycamore	Building	1978
Nisbet Homestead Farm	Earlville	Building	1984
North Grove School	Sycamore	Building	2012
Rollo Congregational United Church of Christ	Earlville	Building	2019
Sandwich City Hall	Sandwich	Building	1979
Shabbona Hotel	Shabbona	Building	2021
Sycamore Historic District	Sycamore	District	1978
von KleinSmid Mansion	Sandwich	Building	1985

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

De Kalb was formed in 1837 (1837-05-01) from Kane.

DE KALB created from KANE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

DeKalb County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,697	19,086	26,768	31,756	31,339	34,388	40,781	51,714	74,624	88,969	100,420

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

65 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 65 of 65 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Afton Center Cemetery	41.84835	-88.7792
Ault Road Cemetery	42.06557	-88.82148
Barron Cemetery	41.98558	-88.62008
Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery	None	None
Brownell Cemetery	None	None
Charter Grove Cemetery	42.06037	-88.64136
Charter Oak Cemetery	42.14177	-88.85572
Cheney Cemetery	None	None
Colton Cemetery	None	None
DeKalb County Farm Cemetery	None	None
Dennis Cemetery	None	None
East Paw Paw Cemetery	41.68768	-88.93494
East Pierce Cemetery	41.83601	-88.62091
Elmwood Cemetery	41.98139	-88.69745
English Cemetery	41.76106	-88.92962
Evergreen Cemetery	41.92224	-88.74786
Fairview Cemetery	41.90936	-88.76296
Freeland Cemetery	None	None
Genoa Cemetery	42.09283	-88.69142
Greenview Cemetery	42.0257	-88.93646
Greenwood Cemetery	41.75813	-88.65627
Hicks Mill Cemetery	42.09065	-88.89981
Hudson Cemetery	41.92501	-88.83263
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery	41.79086	-88.70258
Johnson Grove Cemetery	41.73269	-88.81671
Kingston Cemetery	42.10106	-88.74405
Lanan Cemetery	42.07519	-88.76715
Little Red School House Cemetery	None	None
Malta Cemetery	41.93787	-88.86781
Maple Cemetery	42.08724	-88.84287
Mayfield Cemetery	42.04488	-88.7648
Methodist-Elm Street Cemetery (historical)	None	None
Miller Cemetery	41.77723	-88.6673
Mound Rest Cemetery	41.91368	-88.68445
Mount Carmel Cemetery	41.98978	-88.70199
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	41.90724	-88.64286
Ney Cemetery	42.14703	-88.66602
North Clinton Cemetery	41.79109	-88.76381
North Kingston Cemetery	42.1335	-88.7464
Oak Mound Cemetery	41.71204	-88.68842
Oak Ridge Cemetery	41.65285	-88.65406
Oakwood Cemetery	41.93723	-88.75277
Ohio Grove Cemetery	41.95077	-88.66092
Pine Hill Cemetery	42.08684	-88.84222
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	None	None
Pleasant Street Cemetery	41.93308	-88.74175
Pratts Oak Lawn Cemetery	41.66667	-88.61465
Rose Hill Cemetery	41.77498	-88.87954
Ross Grove Cemetery	None	None
Saint Catherines - Genoa Cemetery	None	None
Saint James Calvary Cemetery	41.78659	-88.94082
Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery	41.93837	-88.74687
Saint Mary Cemetery	41.89031	-88.60196
Saint Paul Catholic Cemetery	41.67238	-88.62976
Shabbona Grove Cemetery	41.73239	-88.88133
South Grove Cemetery	42.03589	-88.85945
South Paw Paw Cemetery	None	None
Stevens Cemetery	41.64448	-88.8698
Suydam Cemetery	None	None
Sycamore - Main Street (historical)	None	None
Sycamore-Somonauk Street (historical)	None	None
Van Olindas Cemetery	41.67455	-88.65572
Vandeburgh Cemetery	42.07016	-88.78339
Victor Cemetery	41.67527	-88.79973
Whitmore Cemetery	41.95264	-88.7536

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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