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DeKalb

Illinois, United States
Also known as: “Barb City”, Buena Vista
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DeKalb, city, DeKalb county, north-central Illinois, U.S. It lies on the south branch of the Kishwaukee River, about 60 miles (100 km) west of Chicago. Founded in 1837, it was called Buena Vista and then Huntley’s Grove (for city founder Russell Huntley of New York) until the 1850s, when it was renamed for Johann Kalb, a general during the American Revolution. The city grew with the arrival of the railroad in the 1850s, and agriculture...

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