A sign reflects the mood in Saturday’s Women’s March in Chicago. Hundreds from the Fox Valley area, both women and men, marched in the second annual Women’s March. Estimated attendance was 300,000 after 250,000 attended in downtown Chicago last year. The march called for women’s equality, equal pay, greater access...
First Fridays kicks off its new season with a gallery night on Feb. 2. The evening will feature 10 gallery openings with more than 20 venues open with art, music, and more in downtown Aurora. Aurora Public Art Commission hosts “Nevertheless: Women Depicting Women” from 5 to 8 p.m. at...
Many s***hole countries currently exist on this old planet, but they are not the ones which have been spelled out by our potty-mouthed President. The true s***hole countries have nothing to do with the ordinary people who live in them. The ordinary people who live in them simply want to...
The Aurora City Council salute to West Aurora High School champions at the Tuesday meeting includes the third-year West Aurora Air Force JROTC program. The drill team unarmed color guard took first place in National competition in Daytona Beach, Fla. in early May as one of 27 schools in the...
John Galles of Aurora, known to many through Johno’s Main Surplus, Aurora Boys Baseball, Johno’s Trophies in the earlier years, and as an all-around stellar person, continues his journey. It was time last Spring to give up his sports equipment and apparel shop on Downer Place in downtown Aurora. He...
Elgin Community College (ECC) will be host to The Long Red Line, a community effort to support One Billion Rising, a global movement to end rape, violence, and oppression against women, Wednesday, Feb. 14. The annual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Building B...
The Oswego Cultural Arts Commission celebrates women in the arts with the return of LUNAFEST, a fundraising film festival of shorts by, for, and about women Saturday, Feb. 3 in Oswego at the Oswego Village Hall, 100 Parkers Mill, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.. There will be nine films. LUNAFEST...
Carl Buddig and Company has acquired an additional manufacturing facility in Montgomery. It is the Company’s fourth manufacturing site in the State. Production at the 280,000-square-foot facility, the former Butterball facility on the West Side of Montgomery, will begin in the Spring. The sale closed January 19, and the acquisition...
Daniel C. Meyers, who has served as Montgomery’s Chief of Police since 2010, announced Friday he will retire effective April 30, after a distinguished 33-year career in law enforcement. Meyers has been with the Montgomery Police Department since February 1985. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant...
