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20120831 Week of August 26 to September 1, 2012

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Curtis Clegg - cclegg@shawmedia.com<br /> Stella Meyer, 3, of Hampshire with her grandfather Dean Meyer in front of the B-25 Bomber "Miss Mitchell" at DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport on Friday, August 24, 2012. The B-25 will be part of the air fest at the airport during Corn Fest through Sunday afternoon.
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Curtis Clegg - cclegg@shawmedia.com
Stella Meyer, 3, of Hampshire with her grandfather Dean Meyer in front of the B-25 Bomber "Miss Mitchell" at DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport on Friday, August 24, 2012. The B-25 will be part of the air fest at the airport during Corn Fest through Sunday afternoon.

  • Jeff Engelhardt – jengelhardt@shawmedia.com<br /> Adnan Kahn, an NIU student and member of the Islamic Society of Northern Illinois University, prays at the mosque Wednesday. The Islamic Society recently finished observing Ramadan and hopes next year's will be in a new mosque.
  • Curtis Clegg - cclegg@shawmedia.com<br /> Terrel Stern, co-pilot of the World War II-era B-25 bomber "Miss Mitchell" in the cockpit of the plane as it banks left to make its final approach to DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport on Friday, August 24, 2012. The B-25 will be part of the air fest at the airport during Corn Fest through Sunday afternoon.
  • Jeff Engelhardt – jengelhardt@shawmedia.com<br /> The Islamic Society of Northern Illinois University hopes to have a new home in time for next year's Ramadan. The group is expected to move from 721 Normal Road to a two-story facility it will construct down the street.
  • Curtis Clegg - cclegg@shawmedia.com<br /> Stella Meyer, 3, of Hampshire with her grandfather Dean Meyer in front of the B-25 Bomber "Miss Mitchell" at DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport on Friday, August 24, 2012. The B-25 will be part of the air fest at the airport during Corn Fest through Sunday afternoon.
  • Curtis Clegg - cclegg@shawmedia.com<br /> A 1929 New Standard D-25 biplane flies over the DeKalb County landscape on Friday, August 24, 2012. The biplane is one of 13 that will be part of the air fest at the airport during Corn Fest through Sunday afternoon. Four of those biplanes will be available to give rides to Corn Fest attendees.
  • Curtis Clegg - cclegg@shawmedia.com<br /> A 1929 New Standard D-25 biplane flies over the DeKalb County landscape on Friday, August 24, 2012. The biplane is one of 13 that will be part of the air fest at the airport during Corn Fest through Sunday afternoon. Four of those biplanes will be available to give rides to Corn Fest attendees.
  • Curtis Clegg - cclegg@shawmedia.com<br /> The DeKalb County landscape passes below the plexiglass nose cone of the World War II-era B-25 bomber "Miss Mitchell" on Friday, August 24, 2012. The B-25 will be part of the air fest at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport during Corn Fest through Sunday afternoon.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Mike Craft (left) and Ammar Mahmood use silage forks to gather steamed sweet corn for guests to Corn Fest Saturday afternoon at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport. <br /> <br /> Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012<br /> DeKalb, Ill.<br /> <br /> **Craft is in blue and Mahmood is in red**
  • Curtis Clegg - cclegg@shawmedia.com<br /> The Sycamore cityscape passes below a propeller of the World War II-era B-25 bomber "Miss Mitchell" on Friday, August 24, 2012. The B-25 will be part of the air fest at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport during Corn Fest through Sunday afternoon.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Mike Craft uses a silage fork to stir up steamed sweet corn for guests to Corn Fest Saturday afternoon at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport. <br /> <br /> Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012<br /> DeKalb, Ill.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Guests at Corn Fest take their free steamed sweet corn Saturday afternoon at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport. <br /> <br /> Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012<br /> DeKalb, Ill.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Sycamore resident Liam Wakeland, 6, helps himself to free steamed sweet corn Saturday afternoon during Corn Fest at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport. <br /> <br /> Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012<br /> DeKalb, Ill.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> After climbing to the top of an inflatable wall at Corn Fest on Saturday, Nyssa Doss, 11, of Chicago, is seen rappelling back to the ground.<br /> <br /> Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012<br /> DeKalb, Ill.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Lawrence Hapeman, 9, of Muskego, Wis., hops down from a slide during Corn Fest at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport Saturday afternoon. <br /> <br /> Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012<br /> DeKalb, Ill.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Members of the band Field Day, including Cindy Arias (left) and Bill Conrades, entertain the Corn Fest crowd Saturday afternoon at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Firefighters respond to a barn fire located on West Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Firefighters inspect a corn crib located on Lloyd Collier's property on West Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Maple Park Fire Chief Kevin Peterson walks near a barn on fire located on West Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> 88-year-old Lloyd Collier looks back to his barn while moving his tractor from potential damage as firefighters control a fire on Collier's property located off of West Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. "I don't accept losing physical things as a catastrophe," said Collier as he sat in his tractor looking toward his home.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> After a parade through downtown, Genoa Marine Cpl. Christopher Wilkins is hugged by his mother, Robin Grabowski of Belvidere, outside the Genoa Veterans Home on Saturday. Wilkins, a 2009 Genoa-Kingston High School graduate, had served in Afghanistan. Wilkins and his wife, Alexandra, are expecting their first child in September and friends and family held a baby shower after the parade.
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