First Fridays in Aurora gets ready to celebrate its eighth year and it’s exhilarating to see how much downtown Aurora has grown. I recently sat down at the Stolp Island Social bar with management team Fred Gore and Tara Ramos to chat about their upcoming involvement with the popular monthly...
By Veronica Harrison Just Food Initiative (JFI) is on the move to educate the next generation on healthy eating! One of our upcoming projects is a collaboration with Communities In Schools (CIS) of the West Aurora Public School District 129. CIS is on a mission to surround students with community...
Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois (GSNI) officially launched the 2020 Girl Scout Cookie season January 8, when Girl Scouts across northern Illinois become entrepreneurs when they earn money to power their own leadership opportunities and adventures! This season, GSNI has two sweet new ways to celebrate young female leaders: A...
Dusty Road Merchants in Oswego opened in the Summer in the former Garden Faire facility at 5 South Madison Street in Oswego.
We had quite a booming year in downtown Aurora this year. We saw tremendous growth when our downtown continued its ascension. Looking back on the year, highlights are numerous, but none so many as the 16 grand openings within downtown Aurora. In April, Aurora resident Teresa Fiehn Millies opened Arcana,...
The half-price membership promotion by the Aurora Historical Society (AHS) which began in the Summer will continue through December 31. Society president Mary Clark Ormond said the opportunity for 12 months of the perks and privileges of membership is both a way to support the work of the organization and...
Building upon the restaurant revival happening in Aurora’s City of Lights, Craft Urban, a popular eatery in Geneva, plans to open its second location in downtown Aurora. Craft Urban Cocktail is a contemporary urban neighborhood restaurant that will be at 41 S. Stolp Avenue at the corner northwest corner of...
Feed the Seed is excited to announce the launch of a new option in entrepreneurial startup funding. Feed the Seed is a registered 501(c) 3 Nonprofit Corporation with the stated mission to “Encourage local economic development by fostering and supporting business start-ups”. We work in partnership with community organizations to...
Charlene Coulombe-Fiore shares the CiCi Award Monday at the Montgomery Village Board meeting with Village president Matt Brolley
A soft opening Friday, Nov. 22 at the Aurora Winter Lights finds diners..
Amy Morton’s newest eatery will bring her signature fare and passion to Aurora. On Stolp Island, in the center of the Fox River and downtown Aurora, Stolp Island Social is a seasonal kitchen and steakhouse. It will open Friday, Nov. 29. Adjacent to the Jeff Award-winning Paramount Theatre, the restaurant...
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After sitting vacant for nearly a quarter of a century, the landmark former Copley Hospital campus in Aurora is about to undergo a $110 million renovation and be repurposed into an innovative living community, which would combine a variety of uses following the city of Aurora government’s approval Tuesday, Nov....
Former Aurora Ward 4 alderman Rick Lawrence criticizes a proposed plan for the Aurora Housing Authority to build another complex on the former Jericho Circle property at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday.
By Rachel Troyer Fonda mi Pueblito recently-opened its doors at 31 N. Broadway in the former Taco Grill location in downtown Aurora. The city government celebrated with a ribbon-cutting in early October. It is a traditional Mexican restaurant where all of the food is fresh and made in-house. The owner...
Urban Equity Properties held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark construction of the Keystone Building Lofts, an $11 Million, multi-unit redevelopment of the historic Keystone Building at 30 S. Stolp Avenue in downtown Aurora. “We are taking yet another building in Aurora and breathing new life into it,” said Aurora mayor...
Derek Drew explains his vision of a new kind of business to the Montgomery Village Board Monday. Drew recently contacted the Village to request a liquor license for a restaurant/entertainment establishment to be located in a 1,248 square foot space at 2086 Orchard Road. Drew desires to create a space...
Financing is secured, permits have been issued, and construction is expected to begin in early November in downtown Oswego. Tuesday, the Village of Oswego government announced that the Shodeen Group has closed with its financer on the first phase of The Reserve at Hudson Crossing, the $69 Million six-story, two-building...
By Jerry Nowicki Sterigenics, a medical supply sterilization company linked to increased cancer risk in the DuPage County area, said Monday it plans to “exit its ethylene oxide sterilization operations in Willowbrook.” According to the U.S. Department of Labor, chronic exposure to ethylene oxide, used in some medical supply sterilization...
