Fall is quickly arriving, which means lots of fun is to be had in and near the DeKalb area. Some of the activities are listed below;

September 11 is the castle challenge; football game between sycamore and DeKalb,

September 25-27th is the Septemberfest.  St. Mary’s host a 3 day festivity of music, carnival rides and good times.

October 25th is the Pumpkin parade in Sycamore.

Tis also the season for apples and corn mazes here are some local ones.

Jonomac Orchard opened Aug 19th and the corn maze opened sept 4th

The other orchard I like is Edwards’s apple orchard, it’s not in DeKalb County but it’s worth the drive to poplar grove.

There is more fall events, more apple orchards in the area, and more corn mazes in the area.  i will continue to update this post, but if you would like to help, please comment on your favorites in these categories.

Holy Cow,   Kane County has increased their Homestead exemption from $5000 to $5500(this is for owner occupied homes).  the best thing about this is the fact that will increase again in 2009 from $5500 to $6000.  What this correlates to in bills may not be much but something is definitely better than nothing.

 The Senior exemption will increase from $3000 to $4000 in 2009 as well

Why am I telling you this in a Dekalb area blog? Firstly, I am hoping like everything else does, it travels from Chicago to the outlying areas then to us.   Secondly I do have Clients that currently live, want to live, or travel to/through Kane county and I thought this information was worth repeating to the masses.