Even though the professional ranks in major football positions, promote the highest level of accomplishment, the college game offers the more fun, more comparisons, less stale attitudes, and unbridled enthusiasm. The college bowl season, just completed, reflects college football’s best foot forward. In high school basketball, diminished in recent decades
Boys Scouts of Blackhawk Troop 11 in Aurora pose Dec. 21, 2023 with handmade replica Viking shields they helped build for Geneva History Museum’s “Viking’s Voyage” gallery exhibit.
East Aurora High School’s Kenneth Cooley (4) drives through Southland College Prep defenders during the East Aurora Holiday Tournament Wednesday, Dec. 27 in Aurora.
A mom shoots a selfie with her son Sunday during an annual family New Year’s Eve bash at the Vaughan Athletic Center in Aurora.
Here are the inductees for the East Aurora Sports Hall of Fame reception and ceremony Saturday, Jan. 13: •Chuck Solberg, athlete (football, basketball, baseball), Class of 1966 •Phil Neal, athlete (basketball, track & field), class of 1967 •Patti Doud Paul, athlete (tennis, volleyball), class of 1977 •Wendell Jeffries, athlete (football,
In partnership with Cradles to Crayons, Naperville Park District is host to a children’s clothes drive at Fort Hill Activity Center, 20 Fort Hill Drive, Naperville, through January 31. Naperville residents are invited to drop off essential items, such as warm clothing and Winter coats, for children ranging from newborn
Valerie Goss, the head of the faculty union at Chicago State University, and Illinois Federation of Teachers President Daniel Montgomery embrace at an April 3, 2023 rally on the campus of Chicago State University.
By John & Nisha Whitehead “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” —Edmund Burke Folks, it’s time to break the cycle of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral, unconstitutional and unacceptable—that have been heaped upon us by the government for way too long. Here’s just a small sampling of what we
January 4 Six years after Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon Church, issued his Manifesto reforming political, religious, and economic life in Utah, the territory is admitted into the Union as the 45th state. – 1896. For the first time since Charlemagne’s reign in the 9th Century, Europe is united
