As the days grow shorter and the winter chill settles in, there’s no better time to grab a warm drink, snuggle up with a good book, and join the Aurora Public Library District for one of our favorite annual traditions: the Winter Reading Adventure (WRA)! Launching December 1, this beloved
The Yorkville Public Library Youth Service Department will have many events in December. All events will take place at the Library, 902 Game Farm Road, unless otherwise noted. For more information, or to register, call 630-553-4354 or visit www.yorkville.lib.il.us. The library will be closed December 24, 25, and 31. Escape
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda I read, with some interest, Wayne Johnson’s account of our meeting at the Yellow Bird Bookstore where he and others presented readings in honor of our veterans on Veterans Day. And as Wayne suggested in his November 13 article, we probably do have things in common
Friday, Nov. 28BataviaMarmion vs. Bartlett, 6Maine East vs. Batavia, 7:30Coal City / Mantenoat Coal CityGardner-So. Wilmington vs. Southland, 5:30Morris vs. Coal City, 7at MantenoIC Catholic vs. Beecher, 5:30Peotone vs. IC Catholic, 7Downers Grove North / Southat Downers Grove SouthLincoln Park vs. Unity Christian, 1:30Metea Valley vs. Hinsdale Central, 3East Peoria
Thursday, Nov. 27Oklahoma State at Northwestern, 9:30 p.m., BTNIllinois State at Charlotte, 12:30 p.m., ESPN2 Friday, Nov. 28Illinois vs. UConn, 11:30 a.m., FOXGeorgia Tech vs. DePaul, 6 p.m., CBSSNIllinois State vs Richmond or Furman, TBD, ESPN2Eastern Illinois at Purdue, 11 a.m., B1G Saturday, Nov. 29Bellarmine at Northern Illinois, 2 p.m.,
Friday, Nov. 28Kent State at Northwestern Illinois, 11 a.m., ESPN2 Saturday, Nov. 29Northwestern at Illinois, 6:30 p.m., BTNNotre Dame at Stanford, 9:30 p.m., ESPNNCAA Div. III playoffs Hanover College at North Central College, noonFCS Playoffs, Illinois state at Southeastern Louisiana, noon, ESPN+NCAA Div. III playoffs Wheaton College at Wartburg College,
Approximately 200 law enforcement officers, attorneys, social workers, healthcare professionals, and college students attended “Unbound: A Human Trafficking Awareness and Response Summit” Friday, Nov. 21, in Aurora. Kane County State’s attorney Jamie L. Mosser and Aurora University partnered in the event held at the university banquet hall. Mosser and Brandon
Randy Brown, left, Aurora Lions Club president, rings a handbell November 21 as a family donates to the Salvation Army Aurora Corps Red Kettle Christmas holiday fundraiser outside Jewel-Osco in Aurora.
Jay Short, right, Aurora Lions Club first vice president and co-service chair, poses with honors students at Fred Rodgers Magnet Academy in Aurora after accepting sneakers from an annual shoe collection for recycling.
Lakota Sioux hoop dancer Starr Chief Eagle performs with three of 22 hoops November 22 at Santori Public Library in Aurora.
Plano Methodist Sunday School Children pose with their place Thanksgiving place mats they made recently.
I didn’t know it at the time, but this is the last of a three-part series on grief, and losing my mother. I first wrote about her death from uterine cancer in the May issue of The Voice. Then in August, I wrote about her Celebration of Life. Finally, at
Building on the popularity of the Forest Preserve District of Kane County’s, “Little Saplings” preschool series, the District is excited to introduce, “Twigs to Trees,” a new nature program designed specifically for school-age children in kindergarten through second grade. Each session of “Twigs to Trees” invites young explorers to investigate
Avalon is a female Aussie who is one year old. Avalon ended up in a high-intake shelter after having puppies. She came to us with a fragile frame, very underweight, but she’s now safe in foster care and working hard to put weight back on. She’s super affectionate, very submissive,
One-hundred raffle gift baskets will highlight “Santa Paws,” a 14th annual fundraiser by Geneva-based Starfish Animal Rescue next weekend. The event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, at Starfish’s intake facility at 204 Dearborn Ct.
By John & Nisha Whitehead Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming bands of thugs smashing car windows and terrorizing communities. Immunity for criminal behavior coupled with prosecutions of whistleblowers. This is how a crime syndicate operates—not a constitutional republic. What we are witnessing today is
November 27 Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, to give rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to go to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus vult!” or “God wills it!”
November 22, just around 9:10 p.m., Aurora Police Dispatch received multiple 911 calls for shots fired at 205 N. Broadway (Two Brothers Roundhouse). When officers arrived, they located multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds. Patrol officers began life-saving measures before Aurora Fire Paramedics transported two of the victims to area
By Brenden MooreCapitol News Illinoisbmoore@capitolnewsillinois.com Illinois driver’s licenses and identification cards will officially enter the digital realm this week. Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Tuesday that people will now have the option to add their Illinois-issued licenses and IDs to the digital wallets on their cellphones. The long-awaited technological
