By Bobby Narang The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) girls basketball season ended with another memorable run Saturday, March 2. The four-class tournament, which is spread across three days, made history when the Class 3A and 4A State champions both ended with identical 38-0 records. First it was Lincoln. After
By Woodrow Carroll With the men’s NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) basketball tournament lurking, it is always fun to look back at some of the memorable tournament moments. With a 75-year history and the first men’s winner determined in 1939, for the men’s tournament, there are many moments to hash
CubsTue, Feb. 27, vs. Cincinnati, T 6-6Wed, Feb. 28, at Milwaukee, W 6-1Thu, Feb. 29, vs. Colorado, L 10-9Fri, March 1, vs. White Sox, W 10-6Sat, March 2, at L.A. Dodgers, L 8-5Sun, March 3, vs. Cleveland, W 5-3Mon, March 4, at San Diego, L 2-1Tue, March 5, at Kansas
Class 4A2023: O’Fallon 62, Benet Academy 572022: Stevenson 55, Barrington 432021: Canceled due to COVID2020: Fremd 58, Lincoln-Way West 472019: Maine West 58, Mother McAuley 462018: Geneva 28, Montini 26Class 3A2023: Nazareth Academy 63, Lincoln 522022: Carmel 43, Nazareth Academy 392021: Canceled due to COVID2020: Chicago Simeon 45, Morton 442019:
Early voting at the Kane County Vote Mobile opened Monday, March 4, at Jewel-Osco parking lot, 1952 W. Galena Boulevard, in Aurora.
Congregants at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Aurora post thoughts, hopes and dreams for their church using approximately 80 sticky notes on glass walls at Saturday and Sunday worship services in a What’s Possible campaign.
Aurora resident Mari Curless, left, presides at a blessing of 76 handmade prayer shawls during Sunday worship at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
March Madness is more than warm Spring training Major League Baseball (MLB) games in Arizona and Florida. March Madness still means high school basketball and college basketball. Illinois State high school boys tournament play in four classes will run through Saturday evening, March 9. The NCAA men’s tournament, which used
By Al Benson Aurora mayor Richard Irvin offered three challenges to Aurora area clergy last week. In a speech at Belle Salle Events Center in Aurora Thursday, Feb. 29, Irvin was keynote speaker a quarterly Aurora InterFaith Alliance leadership breakfast. Entitled “Mayor’s Call to Action,” the speech stressed how clergy
Wyckwood House, 80 S. River Street in Aurora, will be host to a special Boss Babes celebration for Women’s History Month, Thursday, March 21. Shannon Gutierrez, owner of Wyckwood House, and Marissa Amoni, owner of Marissa Bright Public Relations and Event Management, started Boss Babes in 2019 as a way
Micro talks by a Chicago artist and Fermilab historian opened an Aurora University art exhibit Tuesday, Feb. 20. An opening reception showcased “Beyond the Visible,” an exhibit to May 10, at AU’s Schingoethe Center, 1315 Prairie Street in Aurora. The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. In addition
Charlie is male Lab/Husky mix who is eight months old. Charlie loves car rides, walks, and running in the yard. He loves playing catch with a ball or Frisbee and makes a great tug-of-war partner. He does tricks for treats and enjoys eating ice cubes in the kitchen. Charlie will
March 7 Twenty-nine-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention, the telephone. – 1876. More than 3,000 unemployed auto workers, led by the Communist Party of America, brave the cold in Dearborn, Mich. to demand jobs and relief from Henry Ford. The marchers got too close
By John & Nisha Whitehead “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a
By Dilpreet Raju Illinois State and community leaders Monday, Feb. 26 celebrated the planned opening of a new freestanding birth center on Chicago’s South Side while emphasizing proposed maternal health spending increases in governor JB Pritzker’s budget. The nonprofit Chicago South Side Birth Center will mark the City’s second active
Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin presents the key to the City of Aurora to iconic WGN television meteorologist Tom Skilling at his farewell ceremony at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago.
Most of life, whether or not we acknowledge it, is a learning experience, good, bad, or, indifferent. How well we celebrate the joyous occasions, or, apply bad situations into improvement, are the challenges. Some of us never want to learn and grow, others of us seek to apply, learn, and
By Jason Crane Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin honored members of the Aurora African-American Heritage Advisory Board at the City Council meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 27. Mayor Irvin praised the Board for its efforts with the recent 18th annual heritage dinner. “That was the most well-attended event we’ve ever had in
The Venue in Aurora will be host to students from several schools on the weekend of March 8 and 9 for a Student Master Class Jazz Workshop and Festival with Pete Ellman Big Band and Friends. The weekend workshop will culminate in an evening performance March 9 at The Venue,
