The records for the DeKalb Public Hospital include information pertaining to the building of the new hospital, the Kishwaukee Community Hospital, and the selling of the old property, the DeKalb Public Hospital. The records include meeting minutes, constitutions, correspondence, reports, and legal documents.

The records of the Jacob Haish Memorial Hospital Corporation include information pertaining to Jacob Haish’s will, the corporation’s funding of the building of a wing in the DeKalb Public Hospital and the building of newly opened (2007) Kishwaukee Community Hospital’s Emergency Room. The records include meeting minutes, special meeting minutes, annual meeting minutes, legal documents, correspondences, reports, and blueprints.

The collection consists of scrapbooks relating to the Kishwaukee Community Hospital from 1924 to 1975. The scrapbooks contain newspaper articles that detail the activities of both the DeKalb Public Hospital and the Sycamore Public Hospital, as well as their auxiliary groups. An additional box includes reports, meeting minutes, and memos documenting the creation of the hospital and its activities.