DeKalb's MidWeek Celebrating 50 Years

I use a section from the weekly MidWeek published in DeKalb, Illinois, called "Looking Back" a whole lot in this blog as well as my RoadDog's RoadLog Blog and Tattooed On Your Soul World War II Blog.

A group of history-minded folk get together at the Joiner Library in Sycamore, Illinois, and go through old newspapers and report on things that happened 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.  I always find these to be of extreme interest so you get to see them often in these blogs.

The MidWeek began back in 1967 as "The Citzen's Shopper" and at the time mostly covered items for sale.  It was started by J. Frederick Baker with first issue published April 6, 1967.  Under its second owner, James Morel, the amount of news content was expanded and that is where we get the "Looking Back" columns.

Keep Up the Good Work MidWeek and "Looking Back."  --CootWeek