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DEKALB, Ill. -- Few people finish their college education in a retirement facility. But that’s what it took for 90-year-old Joyce Defauw to complete her bachelor’s degree in General Studies from Northern Illinois University, a milestone nearly seven decades in the making.

Here are a bevy of thoughts from the week in this Thanksgiving leftovers column.

ATLANTA — Gunfire scattered a crowd of mourners gathered outside a DeKalb County, Georgia, apartment complex Sunday night to remember an 18-year-old killed Friday in a shooting.

ATLANTA — A vehicle crashed into a DeKalb County charter school just before noon Monday, leaving the driver and three children injured, according to officials.

ATLANTA — The DeKalb County elections board has chosen not to end its relationship with Konnech, a software company whose founder was recently arrested on accusations he stole the personal data of California poll workers.

In farm country near DeKalb, Illinois, Native Americans and settlers have been feuding over a piece of disputed land for 173 years. Now, a federal bill proposes to settle the dispute once and for all — but could still face local resistance.

Four Republicans and three Democrats are vying for the seat previously held for two decades by retired Justice (and former Chicago Bear) Bob Thomas in the 2nd District, which was redrawn to cover a large part of northeastern Illinois, including DeKalb, Kendall, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties.

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Meta, the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, is expanding its massive $1 billion data center under construction in DeKalb to nearly 2.4 million square feet, putting the college town west of Chicago at the center of its metaverse.

The advisory covers Cook, Will, DuPage, Kendall, Kane, Grundy, DeKalb and Ogle counties from noon Thursday until 6 a.m. Friday.

Muncie (Ind.) Code of Ordinances §§ 74.02, 74.17 forbids, among other things, "Any act which shall unreasonably disturb a bicyclist," "including but not limited to" "engaging in hate speech towards bicyclists." (DeKalb, Illinois, and the much smaller Lapel, Indiana, have similar laws.)