DeKALB – Linda Larkey of the Kansas City Kite Club came all the way from Kansas to attend the seventh  annual DeKalb Kite Fest last Sunday.

“DeKalb has quite a reputation for kites,” she said.

Set up not far from her, Dale and Pam Bowden of Wisconsin said they fly kites all over the Midwest whenever they can get off work. The three huge white cat kites they flew in the baby blue sky above Northern Illinois University’s North 40 mingled with flying cows, a butterfly, a dragon, a pair of octopi and even a tire decorated with colorful balloons.