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Q98.5 has been having a blast spotlighting Stateline smalltowns in our feature feature called Smalltown Throwdown on Youtube. Sometimes bigger towns were once small towns. DeKalb, is one such town.

If you lived close enough to Chicago in the 70's and 80's, you could dial in Channel 32 and could get spooked out by watching Svengooli, Son of Svengooli, and Creature Features on the weekends, In Rockford, we were treated to Uncle Don.

Going to college can be a bit overwhelming for anyone. In the case for veterans returning to school it is even more daunting. That's why one NIU student group is helping them acclimate to living a civilian life as a student.

On Saturday, a Northern Illinois University student apparently died falling out of a residence hall window.

You've heard us talking about it on the air and if you are like everyone else you are counting down the days with anticipation for our first ever Insane Inflatable 5K here in the Stateline!

Seriously, you can get college credit for the class based on very popular HBO show at NIU in DeKalb.

Dogs are taking over the NIU Convocation center this weekend.

The Insane Inflatable 5K obstacle course is coming to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb on Sept. 19 and you have an opportunity to register at the lowest price.

This season, NIU football fans will have six opportunities to cheer on the defending Mid-American Conference Champions.

Sounds challenging: converting a factory production snowmobile to run on a new bio-fuel. Students with the Northern Illinois University Clean Snowmobile team have been tasked with that challenge.