I recently saw In The Heights, the 2021 movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning stage musical that follows the lives of individuals in the Latino community of Washington Heights in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Those interested can check out all of the In the Heights materials
Symone Barnes of Aurora, seated, poses during a book-signing event Friday at Zen Loft Wellness Center in Aurora.
Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora, the club that fights diabetes, recently installed officers and directors for 2021-2022. Presiding at an installation ceremony Thursday, June 17, at Oak Street Restaurant in North Aurora was Vic Smith, Cosmopolitan International Mid-States Federation governor. Smith, a Newark resident, is an Aurora Cosmo. Installed were Russ
Art Ericson’s high school reunion was not typical. The Dover, Delaware resident was among approximately 70 East Aurora High School Class of 1960 graduates and friends who gathered Friday, June 18, at Luigi’s Pizza in Aurora for a reunion postponed from 2020. The event included a surprise 79th birthday salute
Yorkville High School’s Kyle Clabough is in the middle of a throw in the Illinois High School Association track and field Class 3A State championship in Charleston at Eastern Illinois University Saturday.
Four military veterans each received a Quilt of Valor June 7, much to their surprise, at the annual Scientel Solutions golf outing at the White Eagle Golf Club in Naperville.
The United States will make a landmark appearance at the World Championship of Indoor Freediving in Belgrade, Serbia, June 21-27. Katie Kleinwachter, aka TEAM USA, and two-time United States record-holder, will become the first United States athlete to participate at a CMAS (World Confederation of Underwater Activities) Indoor World Championship.
Plano’s inaugural Juneteenth celebration Saturday includes the band E-Minor in downtown.
West Aurora High School’s Pride Club greets drivers on Galena Boulevard in Aurora Sunday, June 13, during the second annual Pride Drive celebrating Pride Month.
Gaston Stronk has steered his way through life imbued with many experiences. His PhD in history has created an added value of understanding in life ranging from Aurora to Luxemburg and duties as a Luxemburg ambassador to various countries, to include India, Russia, and the United States. He will retire
Here is a recent post on Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman’s Facebook page: By Kristen Ziman On July 29, I will have completed my 30th year working at the Aurora Police Department. I started as a police cadet in 1991, so I have grown up (both literally and figuratively) in
Pride: Rainbow clothes and decorations, awesome parties and parades (drive-by during a global pandemic!); although these are great ways to celebrate, something that’s often obscured behind the bright colors and pageantry, there is another very important aspect of Pride: LGBTQ+ history. The Aurora Public Library District (APLD) will be a
Naperville resident and Dominican Literacy Center (DLC) 2021 graduate Adriana Lopez, left, and tutor Sally Pobojewski pose for a photo May 27 by DLC founder and director Dister Kathleen Ryan, OP, right.
A late Auroran’s Civil War battlefield pocket diary came home Friday, June 12. Harry Reineke IV, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, presented documents and a diary handwritten by Union Army corporal Frederick L. Thayer. Accepting the items from Reineke was Eric Pry, director of Aurora’s Grand Army
Aurora resident Ricky Rodgers, third from left, received a Black History Makers Award on behalf of he and his wife Elizabeth at the 20th annual Black History Community (BHC) banquet Friday at Prisco Center in Aurora.
At their May 27 meeting, the Oswegoland Heritage Association Board of Directors honored Bob Stekl with the association’s highest honor, the Mary Cutter Bickford Award for Excellence in Local History. Stekl retired from the board in 2019 after more than 18 years’ service, and as a museum volunteer in 2020
By Tom Siebert “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” Those famous words from a disappointed young fan more than 100 years ago echoed hauntingly across a ballroom––a baseball room, really––at the Fox Valley Mall in Aurora recently. A retired Cook County judge was presiding over a mock retrial of two Chicago
Lisle High School senior Tyshawn Watson runs the 110 meter high hurdles Thursday, June 10, at the IHSA Class 2A Glenbard South Sectional in Glen Ellyn.
Neuqua Valley High School’s James Ammenhauser, a senior, lands following his triple jump bid in the Class 3A Naperville North Sectional Thursday, June 10.
Boy Scouts of Troop 43 at Congregational Church of Batavia raise the colors Monday, June 14, to open a Flag Day celebration outdoors at Peg Bond Center.
