 Though the courthouse was modeled after the Lee County structure it does differ; the Lee County building, in Dixon, Illinois, has a rooftop dome and also is longer and wider than the DeKalb County building.By 1903, the appropriation had been upped to $140,000 and the battle over the county seat had begun.This time, it was the city of DeKalb that sought to wrest the title of county seat away from Sycamore.