By Bela “Bill” Suhayda How bad does your message have to be to lose an election to Adolph Hitler? I would surmise…pretty bad. Yet this is what happened to the Democrats, Kamala Harris and “Tampon” Tim Walz November 5, 2024. They were calling Donald Trump, Hitler for a decade. Did
By Bobby Narang As the calendar turned into the second month of 2025, it often indicates the time when high school wrestling starts to heat up. On Saturday, one of the fastest growing sports, girls wrestling, took centerstage with the regional championships taking over at several spots throughout Chicagoland. At
By Woodrow Carroll In the past couple of years, there has been unbelievable movement when it comes to conference affiliation. All of a sudden we find the likes of Oregon, among other schools, in the Big Ten Conference. Just think, it was not too many years ago that the Big
Thursday, Feb. 6Non-conferenceMooseheart at Families of Faith, 6Little Ten Tournamentat SomonaukLeland vs. Somonauk, 5:30Consolation Semi-Final, 7Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Serena, 5:30Semi-Final, 7 Friday, Feb. 7Catholic League WhiteMarmion at St. Laurence, 7Montini at IC Catholic, 7Providence at Aurora Central, 7Chicagoland ChristianChicago Christian at Christ the King, 7:30Timothy Christian at Wheaton Acad., 7:30DuKaneBatavia
West Aurora High School 2025 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees pose for a reception Saturday, Feb. 1.
Yorkville resident Barb Johnson took first place in a Norwegian soup cookoff held Sunday, Feb. 2, at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Montgomery. Samplers voted Johnson’s “Lapskaus,” a beef and root vegetables dish, best of 11 homemade entries. Johnson, Polar Star cultural director, was awarded a traveling gold-colored soup pot
West Aurora High School’s Terrence Smith (5) is in a battle with Downers Grove South’s Adam Flowers (3) Saturday.
Luli Smith, left, passes a sandwich for bagging during a Wednesday Night Gathering at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora January 29.
Aurora Lions Club volunteers took their vision-conservation focus on the road Saturday, Feb. 1. Volunteers hosted an information table and performed youth vision screenings at Santori Aurora Public Library’s third annual Early Childhood Resource Fair. Jay Short, club first vice president and co-service chair, reported Lions volunteers provided 34 youth
Aurora Boy Scouts Charlie Rendall, left, and Andrew Banach pass collection plates during annual Scout Sunday, Feb. 2 at Aurora’s Wesley United Methodist Church.
Starting February 7 through March 9, Girl Scouts will offer cookie booths at various community locations outside businesses and stores. Interested customers can visit the Cookie Finder at www.girlscoutsni.org/findcookies. Starting February 21, the Cookie Finder will connect customers to a local troop who will ship cookies to customer’s doors. Don’t
The Voice contributor, Marissa Amoni, and other community members, wrote several questions for Aurora mayoral candidates in the consolidated primary election to answer. Below are answers from Aurora alderman at-large, John Laesch. How will you work to restore our riverfront along the Fox River, especially north of downtown and RiverEdge
Daisy is a female Beagle Mix who is five years old. Daisy was surrendered to a nearby shelter due to her fascination with the neighbor’s chickens. She is lovable girl who still has a lot of energy. She enjoys toys and bones and gets along with the other dogs in
By John & Nisha Whitehead “At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk (2018) Get ready for Surveillance
By Jade AubreyCapitol News Illinoisjaubrey@capitolnewsillinois.com Illinois lawmakers kicked off their spring legislative session roughly three weeks ago, but lawmakers in the House have already filed more than 1,800 bills that could be acted on before the General Assembly adjourns in May. The vast majority of the ideas won’t make it
By Ben SzalinskiCapitol News Illinoisbszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com Democrats continue to hold a supermajority in the Illinois House thanks to illegally gerrymandered House districts, House Republicans allege in a new lawsuit filed with the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges the current House map fails to meet state constitutional requirements that districts
With great sadness, the family of Carter L. Crane, 81, of Aurora, Illinois, announce his passing on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, after a brief struggle with health issues. Born on December 20, 1943, in Harvard, Illinois, to Lowry and Lucia Crane, Carter spent his formative years in Chicago. From a
East Aurora High School’s Davion Jackson (33) dunks over Elgin’s Kamar Banks (1) Friday, Jan. 24.
By Ben Szalinski & Peter HancockCapitol News Illinoisbszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.comphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com State agencies, nonprofit organizations and a host of other entities that rely on federal funding were thrown into chaos Tuesday following the release of a White House memo that froze – at least temporarily – the distribution of all federal grants, loans
