The Newark High School girls volleyball team won the Class 1A State championship.
The Naperville North High School girls cross country team won its fourth successive Class 3A State championship
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The Oswego Senior Center, 156 E. Washington Street, Oswego, will be host to many events for seniors. All events will take place at the Oswego Senior Center, unless otherwise noted. • Free Memory Screens, by appointment. There are many known causes, ranging from Alzheimer’s to depression or vitamin and nutrition...
By Russ George The SciTech Hands On Museum, in Downtown Aurora, was a beehive of activity when the Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora, “The Club That Fights Diabetes”, held its second annual World Diabetes Day Thursday, Nov. 14 to bring about an awareness of diabetes. Participating organizations at this year’s event...
Acclaimed harpist Nichole Luchs will perform “Sounds of the Season,” a benefit concert, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May Street in Aurora. The public is invited. Parking is free. The concert will be a benefit for renovations to Wesley’s chapel. Admission is...
Vernon LaVia, of Aurora, is president of Defibrillators, Inc.. He is the author of Make Earth Great Again; earth avoidance and our disappearing connection with nature. The publisher is TG Publishing. The earth’s population in just 50 years has more than doubled from 3.6 Billion to 7.6 Billion. At the...
By John W. Whitehead War is a grisly business, a horror of epic proportions. In terms of human carnage alone, war’s devastation is staggering. For example, it is estimated that approximately 231 Million humans died worldwide during the wars of the 20th Century. This figure does not take into account...
November 21 The American inventor Thomas A. Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound. – 1877. A Senate committee issues a report charging that U.S. government officials were behind assassination plots against two foreign leaders and were heavily involved in at least...
After sitting vacant for nearly a quarter of a century, the landmark former Copley Hospital campus in Aurora is about to undergo a $110 million renovation and be repurposed into an innovative living community, which would combine a variety of uses following the city of Aurora government’s approval Tuesday, Nov....
Former Aurora Ward 4 alderman Rick Lawrence criticizes a proposed plan for the Aurora Housing Authority to build another complex on the former Jericho Circle property at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday.
Little Mr. and Miss Aurora winners show their trophies in front of Aurora City Seal and following the announcement of their naming at the Aurora City Council Tuesday.
Approximately 500 were in attendance Sunday, Nov. 10 at the Veterans Serenity Park dedication in Oswego. There were seven articulate speakers, started by Dave Krahn, chairman of the Veterans Serenity Park Committee.
Approximately 500 were in attendance Sunday, Nov. 10 at the Veterans Serenity Park dedication in Oswego. There were seven articulate speakers, started by Dave Krahn, chairman of the Veterans Serenity Park Committee.
By Cat Battista, Executive director, Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry This week in Chicagoland, Winter blew down upon us hard and fiercely. Even the Veterans Day parade put on by the city government of Aurora had to be moved inside, which was lovely and inspirational. When I left the observance...
This week you will meet the first prominent poet of early English poets of North America. Anne Bradstreet was the first writer in England’s North America Colonies to be published. Her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was popular both in England and America in 1650....
Aurora • Through December 12 Neighborhood Festival Funding Grant The city government of Aurora offers financial assistance to organizations planning neighborhood events in 2020. Funding, which is limited to $1,500 per applicant, is made available to assist groups which will be host to public events designed to educate, benefit, organize,...
Around Veterans Day, I try to write something that qualifies as inspirational, heroic, and military-related. To that end, I decided to write about me. Unfortunately, this eliminated the first two qualifications, but left the third. If any of you out there have read my book (Oh, no, another shameless plug...
Continuing her efforts to be accessible to the residents she serves, State representative Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, announces her schedule of Coffee with Kifowit events throughout November. “As State representative, I believe it is very important to be as open, transparent, and accessible as possible for the residents of our community,”...
Continuing her efforts to meet one-on-one with constituents, State representative Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, invites residents to her monthly Coffee and Conversation event Saturday, Nov. 16, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Two Brothers Roundhouse, at 205 N. Broadway in Aurora. “Each month I hold a coffee and conversation event to...
