Zack Prater, a senior at DeKalb High School, practices MIG welding, or gas metal arc welding, in his Kishwaukee College dual credit course on Friday, March 20, 2015. New welders are needed in the workforce because of retirements. ©Daily Chronicle

A path of destruction from the wedge tornado Thursday evening left a path of wreckage through Fairdale in DeKalb County on Friday, April 10, 2015. Seventeen houses were leveled off the foundations, 11 people were transported, and two women confirmed dead after the tornado hit Fairdale around 7:15 p.m. ©Daily Chronicle

Gary and Ruth Bogenberger react while DeKalb County State's Attorney Richard Schmack speaks to the media after court on Friday, May, 8, 2015. Their son David Bogenberger was found dead after a hazing party at Pi Kappa Alpha on the campus of Northern Illinois University on Nov. 2, 2012. © Daily Chronicle

Pushing his tool chest filled with tools accumulated in his 41 years working at the General Electric plant in DeKalb, Jim Cradduck, 59, leaves from his last day of work after the GE plant closed on Thursday, January 29, 2015.  The GE plant has operated on Pleasant St. in DeKalb since 1946.  ©Daily Chronicle

U.S. Army Spc. Alan Cugler, 20, hugs his sisters Trinity Ingalls (left), 13, and Katrina Ingalls (right), 11, at Sycamore Middle School after he surprised them on Thursday, March 12, 2015, after returning home from an 11 month tour of duty working security in Djibouti, Africa. ©Daily Chronicle

Fairdale resident Rick Geist takes a break from clearing debris in his backyard to answer his cell phone on Monday, April 13, 2015.  Geist and his wife Dawn survived the April 9 tornado which left their home on Rt. 72 uninhabitable by bunkering in their basement with their three Australian Shepherds.  ©Daily Chronicle

Reacting to a chilean rose hair tarantula being introduced to the audience, Land of Learning campmates Meila Robinson (left), 6, Lainey Justice (center), 7, and MaKenna Araiza (right), 5, all wince during the DeKalb Library's "Original Builders: Bugs on Parade" program put on by Iowa's Grout Museum District on Thursday, July 9, 2015. ©Daily Chronicle

Owner Gale Fitzsimmons, of St. Paul, Minnesota, grooms her Old English Sheepdog named Jackson, before he's shown in the 9-12 month puppy group at the Kennel Club of Yorkville Dog Show at the NIU Convocation Center on Saturday, April 4, 2015.  Fitzsimmons estimates it takes about two and a half hours to groom Jackson before she shows him. ©Daily Chronicle

Sycamore firefighters and A-TEC ambulance paramedics transport a man in his 30s out of the ambulance by cot to an awaiting helicopter to be airlifted to OSF St. Anthony's Hospital in Rockford on Friday after he got an arm stuck in an antique gasoline-powered engine at the Northern Illinois Steam Power Club's Steam Show and Threshing Bee at Taylor Marshall Farm in Sycamore on Friday, August 14, 2015. ©Daily Chronicle

DeKalb firefighters stand by as a member of the Illinois State Police Methamphetamine Response Team enters the residence at 418 N. N. Eleventh St. on Friday, April 25, 2014 in DeKalb in a hazmat suit to collect hazardous material from the active meth lab found by DeKalb Police in the second story apartment.  ©Daily Chronicle

Nikki Burton plays with her son Liam Burton, 18 months, while he's being held by his father Adam Burton Thursday afternoon after being reunited in Sycamore.  Nikki and Adam Burton are both senior airmen in the Air Force and were deployed for 167 days to Southeast Asia with their unit from Travis Air Force Base in California.  Liam spent about three months living with Adam's mother Kim Mattei at her home in Sycamore and two months with Nikki's mother Melissa Miller in Kalamazoo, Mi.  ©Daily Chronicle

Firefighters and family frantically shovel corn as it empties from the grain bin on the Madey Farm. An hours-long rescue effort involving numerous fire and police agencies from across Northern Illinois ended Monday, May 5, 2014, with the recovery of the body of Genoa farmer Leon Madey. Authorities said Madey, 73, was found inside a 30,000-bushel grain bin on his property at 35770 Genoa Road, between Melms and Hill roads near Genoa.  ©Daily Chronicle

A bald eagle leaves from its perch above the south bank of the Kishwaukee River near the Irene Rd. bridge in Kirkland on Wednesday, December 10, 2014. The eagle and it's mate have a visible nest about 500 feet downstream in a grove of trees on the south bank of the Kiswaukee River.  The bald eagle, formally Haliaeetus leucocephalus, has a body that only measures 34 to 43 inches but its wingspan measures anywhere from six to eight feet, according to National Geographic. ©Daily Chronicle