Community Support
Throughout the extended campus community, in DeKalb and in the surrounding cities and towns, businesses and residents showed their support for NIU by putting up posters, red and black balloons, ribbons, and other displays. Many displays began appearing within hours of the shooting. The DeKalb Chamber of Commerce and the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce generously worked together to develop posters that businesses and residents could place on their doors and windows. An employee at the NIU Founders Memorial Library and DeKalb resident, Rodney Neace, took hundreds of digital photographs which show the support and care that the community gave to NIU. He then generously gave copies to the Regional History Center and here are some of his pictures.
"Forward Together Forward" appears on the marquee on the State Street Theater in downtown Sycamore. A Huskie poster appears in a doorway on the left:
A poster sponsored by the DeKalb and Sycamore Chambers of Commerce fills a sign at an intersection in Sycamore:
Forward, Together Forward appears on the marquee at the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb:
Someone placed a poster with "Our Thoughts and Prayers are with You" on a bulletin board on the corner of Lincoln Highway and North Second Street in DeKalb. The Egyptian Theatre's marquee is in the background:
A banner reading "Our Thoughts and Prayers are with You" blows in the wind along a fence at Excel Hearing Solutions on the corner of Lincoln Highway and North First Street in DeKalb:
"We love & support the NIU family" with a memorial Huskie ribbon forms a sign at the Web girl Web Designs business along Lincoln Highway in downtown DeKalb:
A poster in the window of The House Cafe on Lincoln Highway in DeKalb:
Six white Forward, Together Forward streetlight banners with a Huskie memorial ribbon line the north side of East Lincoln Highway. The first business on the left with the blue roof and bright yellow signage is the NAPA Auto Parts store at 607 E. Lincoln Highway:
Someone at a private residence in DeKalb hung a sign of support with black ribbons between trees, with a spotlight for nighttime:
The Hillcrest Covenant Church in DeKalb sign gave a message of support:
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