Illinois
DeKalb County
Township of DeKalb

DeKalb

DeKalb is a city in , United States. The population was 40,290 at the 2020 census. The city is named after decorated -French war hero Johann de Kalb, who died during the American Revolutionary War.
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  • Type: Town with 42,600 residents
  • Description: city in De Kalb County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Buena Vista”, “De Kalb, Illinois”, “DeKalb Center”, “DeKalb, IL”, “DeKalb, Illinois”, and “Huntleys Grove”
  • Postal code: 60115

Places of Interest

Highlights include Egyptian Theatre and Huskie Stadium.

Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
The in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, is an Egyptian Revival theatre that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Stadium
Brigham Field at is a college football stadium located on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Opened 60 years ago in 1965, it is the home field of the NIU Huskies of the Mid-American Conference.

House
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
The was built as a private home by barbed wire entrepreneur Isaac Ellwood in 1879. It is located on First Street in DeKalb, , United States, in .

DeKalb

Latitude
41.9299° or 41° 55′ 48″ north
Longitude
-88.7502° or 88° 45′ 1″ west
Population
42,600
Elevation
879 feet (268 metres)
United Nations Location Codes
US DCB and US DEK
Open location code
86HHW6HX+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9298253788
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4889553
Wiki­data ID
Q580478
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“DeKalb” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ديكالب”
  • Armenian: “Դե Կալբ”
  • Armenian: “Դե Քալբ”
  • Basque: “DeKalb”
  • Belarusian: “Дэ-Калб”
  • Bulgarian: “Декалб”
  • Catalan: “City of DeKalb”
  • Catalan: “DeKalb”
  • Cebuano: “DeKalb”
  • Chechen: “Де-Калб”
  • Chinese: “DeKalb”
  • Chinese: “迪卡尔布”
  • Chinese: “迪卡爾布”
  • Cornish: “DeKalb, Illinois”
  • Cornish: “DeKalb”
  • Croatian: “DeKalb”
  • Czech: “DeKalb”
  • Dagbani: “DeKalb”
  • Danish: “DeKalb”
  • Dutch: “DeKalb”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديكالب”
  • French: “DeKalb”
  • German: “DeKalb”
  • Gilaki: “دیکلب (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “دیکلب”
  • Haitian: “DeKalb, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “DeKalb”
  • Hausa: “Dekalb”
  • Hebrew: “דיקלב”
  • Ido: “DeKalb, Illinois”
  • Ido: “DeKalb”
  • Interlingua: “DeKalb”
  • Irish: “DeKalb”
  • Italian: “DeKalb”
  • Japanese: “ディカルブ (イリノイ州)”
  • Japanese: “ディカルブ”
  • Japanese: “ディキャルブ”
  • Japanese: “デカルブ”
  • Korean: “디캘브”
  • Ladin: “DeKalb”
  • Mazanderani: “دکالب (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “دکالب”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “DeKalb”
  • Newari: “डेकाल्ब, इलियोनोई”
  • Newari: “डेकाल्ब”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “DeKalb”
  • Norwegian: “DeKalb”
  • Persian: “دکالب، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “دکالب”
  • Polish: “DeKalb”
  • Portuguese: “DeKalb”
  • Russian: “Де-Калб”
  • Russian: “ДеКалб”
  • Serbian: “Декаб”
  • Serbian: “Декалб”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “DeKalb, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “DeKalb”
  • Silesian: “DeKalb”
  • Slovak: “DeKalb”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دکالب، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “De Kalb, Illinois”
  • Spanish: “DeKalb”
  • Swedish: “DeKalb”
  • Talysh: “De Kalb”
  • Tatar: “Де-Калб”
  • Turkish: “DeKalb, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “DeKalb”
  • Ukrainian: “Де-Калб”
  • Urdu: “ڈے کالب، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “ڈے کالب”
  • Uzbek: “DeKalb”
  • Uzbek: “ДеКалб”
  • Vietnamese: “DeKalb, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “DeKalb”
  • Volapük: “DeKalb”
  • Waray (Philippines): “DeKalb, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “DeKalb”
  • Welsh: “DeKalb, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “DeKalb”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈیکالب”
  • “DeKalb”

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