NIU STEAM is offering Saturday STEAM Studio sessions at Northern Illinois University (NIU) DeKalb for the whole family, October 2-16. Two-hour sessions in the morning or afternoon will offer families the chance to explore local plant and animal species, make their own weather instrument, design and build an air-powered rocket,
Participants can become creative in October with the Aurora Public Library District’s (APLD) Tuesday and Wednesday Tech programs! In this series, our wonderful Digital Services team will show you how to make a variety of cool creations using some of the Library’s Maker machines, including our Cricut vinyl cutter, laser
Waubonsee Community College will host College Night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, on its Sugar Grove Campus in the Academic and Professional Center. Waubonsee’s annual College Night is a free event designed for students, parents, and community residents who want to discuss college options. There will
Oak Street Restaurant, 945 Oak Street in North Aurora, will be host to a Diabetes Football Fundraiser for Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora, the club that fights diabetes. The drive-through event will be held from 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, during the Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers game. The public is invited.
Kaneville United Methodist Church, 46 Main Street in Kaneville, will hold a drive-thru beef supper from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9. The public is invited. Please enter off of Harter Road. The menu will include roast beef with corn, coleslaw, cranberry relish, mashed potatoes and gravy and
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To help raise awareness of prevention and treatment options, the Naperville Park District’s Fort Hill Wellness Series will focus on breast cancer in the next presentation, will be at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25 at Fort Hill Activity Center, in person at 20 Fort
There will be a a power packed program: Captial & Grants Lunch & Learn webinar from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28. The virtual guest speaker panel consists of small business lenders, SBA representatives, and grant specialistClick the Zoom to join us02web.zoom.us/j/81672780433. –Quad County Urban League
Michelle Meyer, executive director of Mutual Ground Aurora, speaks to the September 28 meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Aurora at the Prisco Community Center.
Hundreds of water lanterns float downstream on the Fox River from Aurora’s RiverEdge Park at a Water Lantern Festival Saturday, Sept. 18.
“Art Comes Alive: A Teen Art Exhibition” was created by us to celebrate and display the creativity of local youth. All artwork will be submitted by local teen artists and will be put on display at Gallery 1904, 1 E. Benton St. Aurora, IL 60505 for the community to appreciate
State representative Barbara Hernandez, D-Hernandez, will join with ACLU Illinois for a town hall meeting to discuss women’s reproductive health care legislation at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 1 E. Benton Street in Aurora. Hernandez and ACLU Illinois will discuss legislation to repeal the Parental Notification of Abortion (PNA).
Fox Valley area climate activists will participate in international climate strike day of action at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24 at Simmons Park, 1191 E. Indian Trail, Aurora. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to wear red as part of the international “code red”
Historic Aurora voices will come alive during the Big Woods Cemetery Walk. Big Woods School Foundation will hold the Walk from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at the Cemetery, 3033 N. Eola Road in Aurora just south of Butterfield Road. Proceeds will benefit restoration of Big Woods
If you’re looking for a way to be more civically engaged, why not attend the Aurora Public Library District’s (APLD) hybrid program, Civic Education Series: School Boards at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30? You can join the event in person at the Santori Library (Room 125/126) or on Facebook Live.
Open Roads A.B.A.T.E. (American Bikers Aimed Toward Education) of IL, Inc. will be host to its post party for those who have 2021 Open Roads Summer Books Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Plano American Legion, 510 E. Dearborn Street in Plano. Books must be turned in by 4 p.m. that
Aurora Fire Department battalion chief Kris Tappendorf gives a CPR demonstration at Aurora’s eighth annual youth and family resource fair Thursday, Sept. 16, at Prisco Community Center in Aurora.
All ages are invited to a reception October 1 at the Gary Brown Art Gallery/Studio in Aurora with featured artist Randy Meyers, who is known as: “The Recreator”. The showing of Randy’s original lamps are created from repurposed industrial parts. Randy works at a furious pace, and often has sold
Residents of the 50th District, which includes portions of Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, Campton Hills, Elburn, Montgomery, Oswego, Plano, St. Charles, Sugar Grove. and Yorkville; and 70th District which includes portions of western Kane County including Big Rock, Kaneville, Lily Lake, Virgil, Campton Hills and Burlington are invited to a free,
Naperville representatives of the Police and Fire Departments place a wreath Saturday, Sept. 11 in ceremony at the Commander Dan Shanower Memorial.
Memorial ringing of the bell is a solemn feature at the Oswego First Responder Memorial at the Oswego Public safety Campus.
