I recently went looking for a nugget and found a gold mine. Let me explain. I visited the website of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a few weeks ago to track down information on a former Illinois lawmaker from its oral history collection. I emerged several hours later...
Fox Valley Brass Band members stand for John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sunday, June 26, the finale in a salute to great brass music and America at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
By Al Benson After 41 years, William “Bill” Poss of Aurora closed his Aurora restaurant for the last time Sunday, June 26. Poss, owner of Luigi’s Pizza and Fun Center in Aurora, closed his business–a pizza/pasta restaurant with bar, game room, laser tag arena ,and Sunday church service site–due to...
Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora, the club that fights diabetes, raised more than $14,000 at its second annual Night at the Farm event Friday, June 24. Cosmo president Russ George reported results of the event at Blackberry Farm in Aurora. According to George, donors contributed 35 gift baskets, 25 gift cards,...
Independence Day holiday is and should be a big, wonderful, celebration. In spite of many problems, distractions, and problems, the founding of the country in a political sense was comparatively resolved, breathtaking, and led to solving governmental situations. We require comparable courage today. It is a busy world for The...
By Jason Crane The Aurora City Council approved a proposal to redevelop the vacant and mostly unused former Carson Pirie Scott building at 970 N. Lake Street at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday, June 28. • Seven individuals used their voices for up to three minutes each speaking against,...
Aurora • RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway, and McCullough Park, Illinois Avenue and Lake Street, music, games, food, kids activities, will start at 7 p.m.. Fireworks will be Monday, July 4 at 9:15 p.m. over the Fox River with viewing at McCullough Park and RiverEdge Park. • Fourth of July...
June 27, 2022Dear editor; Donald Trump said all along that if elected he would appoint justices who would overturn Roe v Wade, to take away women’s reproductive rights and turn those rights over to the legislative powers of each state, many of which already had trigger laws banning abortion immediately,...
First of two parts Nature has so many beneficial plants for us to examine and use. For those who want to have a perfectly-green lawn, dandelions can be considered a nuisance. Many years ago my mother and I made dandelion wine in a crock pot but it was not a...
Aurora Downtown welcomes everyone to create pub and margarita crawls in downtown Aurora this Summer. The downtown organization of business and property owners recently launched two self-guided online crawls to encourage participants to pick a date, grab some friends, and enjoy the crawls at their leisure. Unlike a standard event,...
The ECHO Group, an Aurora non profit, is offering free COVID-19 testing at Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May Street in Aurora. The public is invited. Parking is free. Use door 3 on the church’s southwest side. Tests are offered from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays. Walk-ins are welcome....
New England Congregational Church (NECC), 406 W. Galena Boulevard in Aurora, will be host to a joint outdoor service with Our Savior Lutheran Church, Aurora, at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 3. The public is invited. Attendees should bring lawn chairs or blankets. An all-ages outdoor service will be held in...
Listen to the beauty of Clair de lune and hear the majesty of Claude Debussy’s mastery. Enjoy his Afternoon of a Fawn and feel mesmerized by its tones. Or his Dialogue of the Wind and Sea and you can visualize the very image of a “wild grey ocean driven before...
Once upon a time, in Aurora, Ill., there were no shopping centers, strip malls, or whatever one wanted to call them. Aurorans shopped mostly downtown at local retail outlets. There were, of course, local branches of national business entities, such as, Woolworth, Kroger, and Rexall Drugs, to name a few...
Friday of last week there was a seismic change in United States law because the 50 year old Roe v. Wade ruling, guaranteeing access to safe and legal abortion, was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. There were cheers from everyone who has been fighting for this moment for years,...
Ingredients1 cup milk1 cup ice water1 (6 ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate12 cubes of ice1/4 cup vanilla ice cream1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract DirectionsIn a blender combine milk, water, orange juice concentrate, ice cubes, vanilla ice cream, and vanilla extract. Blend until smooth. Pour into three 12 oz glasses 3...
Americans do love their Independence Day,And celebrate it in their own self-chosen way.Traditions have been coined to help us celebrate,But otherwise the choice is ours, and so we state.What must be seen here is the independence vein;We do it our way, either join in or refrain.There are so many plaudits,...
Libraries are evolving. Gone are the silent, stoic, halls with shelves as far as the eye can see. People of all ages visit the library to connect with others, create new things, and discover new ideas. Libraries are one of the few remaining establishments where the public can interact with...
The Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 will be host to the 2022 13th Annual LaSalle Street Historic Auto Show Sunday, July 3, on South LaSalle Street, Aurora. The registration for the Auto Show will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., with a presentation and National Anthem at noon and...
In preparation for the Fourth of July weekend and the following weeks, the City of Aurora government has launched a citywide campaign for fireworks scofflaws. By City Code, fireworks are illegal in the State’s second-largest city, and the selling, possession, storage, and usage of fireworks now come with hefty fines....
