Day: January 30, 2024

Paramount Theatre in Aurora goes big

Chicago theater audiences know when Aurora’s Paramount Theatre goes big, it goes big. Such is the case today with three major announcements from Paramount, the largest subscription theater in the U.S.: •Paramount has revealed a blockbuster, four-show line-up for its 13th Broadway Series, including two highly anticipated Regional Premieres –...

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Illinois drinking water sustainability in the works

By Dilpreet Raju A Chicago organization focused on drinking water sustainability will receive a $15 million federal grant over the next two years for a project aimed at jumpstarting a regional clean water industry. The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded the grant to Current Innovation NFP, a nonprofit “innovation hub”...

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New theatre set for Aurora

Mayor Richard C. Irvin and Paramount Theatre announce that the new Stolp Island Theatre has broken ground and construction has begun. The new, 98-seat theater will be downtown Aurora’s next live performance venue, thanks to a multi-year funding commitment from Verano, a leading multi-state cannabis company that operates Zen Leaf...

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Variety, information, in The Voice as usual

Variety and family information in The Voice, as usual, this week includes: •Theatre is important to most communities. •The focus is for both Paramount Theatre and the building of the Stolp Island Theatre. •Both are in Aurora, however, it promotes more than just Aurora theatres. They are for the Midwest....

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Reader’s Voice: Road to equality, peace, continues

January 28, 2024Dear editor; “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union” begins the document establishing the framework upon which our country was governed, for approximately the next 237 years. Written by land-owning white men in the 17th Century, just as it implies,...

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Naperville’s Mary Gibson receives special award

Naperville Park District Board president, Mary Gibson, was presented with the Master Board Member Award Saturday, Jan. 27, during the 2024 Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD)/Illinois Park and Recreation Association (IPRA) Soaring to New Heights Conference. Master Board Member is the highest level in IAPD’s Board Member Development Program....

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Black history focus in Feb. 17 concert

Jonathan Dudley & LiBerated Chorale, in partnership with More Than A Minority and The Black Excellence Society, will showcase their talents in their debut concert “Live In The Valley: Celebrating Aurora Black History Past, Present, and Future” will take place Saturday Feb. 17 at Main Baptist Church, 814 E. Galena...

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Grand Canyon truly a grand experience

“There goes God with an army of banners.” —Poet Carl Sandburg comparing the Canyon to a Divinity. The Grand Canyon in Arizona is 277 miles long, a mile deep and as much as 18 miles wide. All of it has been carved out by erosion of the Colorado River. The...

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Monitor needed for Wild Bill Suhayda prose

Oh my lord, my lord. Just when I thought it was safe to go back in The Voice with a new fun topic, here comes Wild Bill Suhayda riding full speed ahead on his donkey and shooting his flaming arrows in my direction and that of Chas Coddington as well....

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Reader’s Commentary: Reaction by Wayne Johnson wrong in Jan. 18 piece

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Wayne’s World Johnson, the author of the piece, was wrote I was wrong suggesting he wanted Donald Trump executed similar to Mussolini during the last days of World War Two. I eagerly read Wayne’s World for my many mistakes.. I wanted to find where I had...

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Recipe of the Week: Slow Cooker Chicken Taco Soup

Ingredients1 onion, chopped1 (16 ounce) can chili beans1 (15 ounce) can black beans1 (15 ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle beer2 (10 ounce) cans diced tomatoes with green chilies, undrained1 (1.25 ounce) package taco seasoning3 whole skinless, boneless chicken...

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Poem: The Truth of The Matter

No matter how advanced we think we are;No matter what, or when, or even just how far,What we conceive as forging on aheadMay justly be the opposite instead.Just look at all the ages lived before,And each and every one is stained by war.Summations of all this will judge one course:In...

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Newbery Award Selection Committee helps children

What do the books Number the Stars, The Giver, Bud, Not Buddy, and The One and Only Ivan have in common? They are all past recipients of the Nunnery Medal. For more than a century, the Newbery Medal has been awarded to the most distinguished American children’s book published the...

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High school boys basketball schedule February 1-5; results January 23-29

Thursday, Feb. 1Chicagoland ChristianAurora Christian at Wheaton Acad., 7:30Little Ten Tournamentat SomonaukSemi final games Friday, Feb. 2Chicago Catholic League WhiteAurora Central at Providence, 7IC Catholic at Montini, 7Providence-St. Mel at St. Francis de Sales, 7St. Laurence at Marmion, 7DuKaneGeneva at Batavia, 7Glenbard North at Lake Park, 7St. Charles East at...

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Riverside-Brookfield blunts comeback by Lions

By Bobby Narang Riverside-Brookfield High School boys basketball coach Mike Reingruber slowly started to let out a smile when discussing the victory Friday, Jan. 26. The Bulldogs were in command for most of their non-conference home game against Lyons, until the final three-plus minutes. The Lions mounted a furious comeback,...

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USF dominant in mid-’50s in college basketball

By Woodrow Carroll With each passing season, those who follow college basketball are wont to point out that the last undefeated (National Collegiate Athletic Association) NCAA men’s basketball champion was the 1975-1976 Indiana University Hoosiers. Just how far in the past are we now? With the death of the late...

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Chicago Bulls schedule/results January 10 – February 10

Wed, Jan. 10vs. Houston, W 124-119Fri, Jan. 12vs. Golden State, L 140-131Sat, Jan. 13at San Antonio, W 122-116Mon, Jan. 15at Cleveland, L 109-91Thu, Jan 18at Toronto, W 116-110Sat, Jan. 20vs. Memphis, W 125-96Mon, Jan. 22at Phoenix, L 115-113Thu, Jan. 25at Los Angeles, L 141-132Sun, Jan. 28at Portland, W 104-96Tue, Jan....

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Chicago Blackhawks schedule/results January 9 – February 19

Tue, Jan. 9vs. Edmonton, L 2-1Thu, Jan. 11at Winnipeg, L 2-1Sat, Jan. 13vs. Dallas, L 3-1Tue, Jan. 16vs. San Jose, W 2-1, soThu, Jan. 18at Buffalo, L 3-0Fri., Jan. 19vs. N.Y. Islanders, W 4-3, otMon, Jan. 22vs. Vancouver, L 2-0Wed, Jan. 24at Seattle, L 6-2Thu, Jan. 25at Edmonton, L 3-0Sat,...

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Northern Illinois Men’s College Basketball January 2 – February 24

Tue, Jan. 2vs. Akron, L 73-51Sat, Jan. 6at Ohio, L 78-66Tue, Jan. 9at Western Michigan, L 95-90, otSat, Jan. 13vs. Bowling Green, L 83-72Tue, Jan. 16vs. Kent State, L 83-76Tue, Jan. 23vs. Toledo, L 89-73Sat, Jan. 27at Ball State, L 81-71Tue, Jan. 30, 6 p.m.at Central MichiganSat, Feb. 3, 3...

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