Jenna Dooley
News DirectorJenna Dooley has spent her professional career in public radio. She is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois - Springfield. She returned to Northern Public Radio in DeKalb after several years hosting Morning Edition at WUIS-FM in Springfield. She is a former "Newsfinder of the Year" fromthe Illinois Associated Press andrecipient of NIU's Donald R. Grubb Journalism Alumni Award. She is an active member of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association and an adjunct instructor at NIU.
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Ches Thurber es un profesor asociado de ciencias políticas en Northern Illinois University y ha estado siguiendo de cerca el desarrollo de los acontecimientos. Se dedica al estudio de los conflictos internacionales, la seguridad, la consolidación de la paz y la gobernanza global. -
La reunión tuvo lugar el martes 6 de enero en el "Peace Corner" del centro de DeKalb. -
The gathering took place Tuesday, Jan. 6 at downtown DeKalb's "Peace Corner."
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Ches Thurber is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University and has been watching the events unfold. He studies international conflict, security, peace-building and global governance.
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The project is proposed by Endeavour Energy, a company that says it’s creating a network of sustainable data centers that reduce water use and lessen demand on the power grid. -
DeKalb has been a hotbed of data center activity in recent years, and the public will soon be able to weigh in on yet another proposal. -
Starved Rock State Park will undergo an $18 million improvement project over the next year. -
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin is not running for re-election. So far, it’s a crowded field of candidates lining up to succeed him in Illinois. Even though the primary is still months away, county clerks statewide are already preparing by updating voter rolls, testing machines and recruiting election judges. Political scientists are also watching the race closely. -
Naperville is one of a few dozen communities that receives their electricity through a co-operative agency called Illinois Municipal Electric Agency, or IMEA. The city’s contract is set to expire in 2035, but the agency is asking them to sign on for an additional twenty years. -
Oficiales municipales de DeKalb dicen que tienen evidencia de que ICE tomó a un individuo bajo custodia. El administrador municipal de DeKalb, Bill Nicklas, dice que la ciudad se enteró de la actividad el martes pasado.
