By John W. Whitehead The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife, Mary, traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so that
By Raymon Troncoso Illinois reported its third consecutive day with more than 100 COVID-19 deaths Tuesday. Meanwhile, most statistics the State uses to measure progress in combatting the coronavirus ticked up slightly. Tuesday, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported 5,644 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in Illinois,
By Sarah Mansur When a new year begins in Illinois, there typically are dozens if not hundreds of new laws going into effect. Not this year. Just like so many other things in this year, the legislative Spring session was stunted by COVID-19. Once the global pandemic reached Illinois in
December 28, 2020Dear editor; As we come to the end of a truly challenging year, I extend to all a joyous holiday season. Many of us have experienced illness, financial hardship, isolation, and various adversities, but we made it through 2020. Good riddance! Despite these challenging times we faced together,
Anyone can join mayor Steve Chirico at noon Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, when he premieres his new weekly Facebook live talk and Q&A, Naperville Unscripted, to help share the latest information on a variety of City topics of interest and engage with residents. “As part of the Bloomberg Harvard City
By Brandy GilliamAurora My name is Brandy Gilliam. I am writing this letter with the endorsements of The People’s Coalition, Aurora Rapid Response Team, Indivisible Aurora, and P.O.B.U.M.S. (Positive Outlooks Balances Universal Madness Strategically) S.OC.I.E.T.Y. (Sisters Of Conscious Intellect Educating The Youth). We express our sentiments regarding the Study Circles,
Approximately 100 city of Aurora government employees volunteer for the Holiday Hope Pop-Up Pantry Tuesday, Dec. 22 and help to distribute food to 1,500 families.
By John W. Whitehead The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife, Mary, traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so that
Aurora families were surprised with a special Christmas message this morning from a famous movie character. Buddy, the Elf from the hit movie and musical Elf, made an appearance on the City’s social media channels on this cold holiday morning, bringing both Christmas greetings and an important reminder to focus
Chuck Nelson, right, Aurora Deputy mayor, poses for the camera with his wife, Karen, and Richard Irvin, left, mayor of Aurora, Thursday, Dec. 17 following a surprise naming of the Chuck B. Nelson Development Services Center on Broadway in Aurora.
By Sarah Mansur The U.S. Congress reached an agreement Monday evening on a roughly $900 Billion COVID-19 relief package that both extends unemployment benefits, provides stimulus checks to Americans within a certain income bracket and funds to small businesses, but it fell short of providing direct funding to State and
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, the City Council listened to an update on the Civilian Review Board (CRB). Aurora Communications director Clayton Muhammad said there were 134 applicants for the Civillian Review Board which finished accepting applications
By Jason Crane The North Aurora Village Board, through the Zoom video conference platform, voted against a third amendment to the annexation agreement for the Moose Lake Estates subdivision at the Board meeting Monday. The Board has spent many hours receiving input from dozens of residents since the October 19,
December 18, 2020Dear editor; In response to Frank Patterson’s letter in the December 17 issue of The Voice (thevoice.us/objection-to-recent-readers-commentary): Mr. Patterson thinks it is “hooey” the Democratic Party has become the home of Big tech billionaires, globalists, socialists, Marxists, BLM, antifa, and main stream media. Perhaps he needs to do
Kane County Treasurer, David J. Rickert, reminds taxpayers that information and forms for the Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral program are available in the Treasurer’s office, 719 Batavia Avenue, Geneva. The program allows qualified senior citizens to defer all or part of their 2020 property taxes up to $5,000 on
The Yorkville Public Library is excited to announce that starting in January 2021 it will resume accepting book donations. The staff members and volunteers will expand the variety of books in the lobby used book sale after quarantining the books for three days. We ask everyone to limit donations to
The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University asked me to do some noodling about the future of Illinois. I have mentioned it to several friends. The responses: A roll of the eyes; a belly laugh; a retort that it is too late to do anything about Illinois.
The Fox Valley Park District has been honored as an Illinois Distinguished Accredited Agency by the Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD) and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association (IPRA). The two Statewide associations administer the Illinois Distinguished Accreditation program with the goal of improving the delivery of park and
The YMCA and Naperville Park District, through the generous support of community donors and volunteers, are continuing the annual tradition of providing a special Christmas meal for Naperville seniors and families in need this year, although through home meal delivery, instead of a luncheon event. Not surprisingly, given the ongoing
By John W. Whitehead Early in the morning of Monday, Dec. 15, Google suffered a major worldwide outage in which all of its internet-connected services crashed, including Nest, Google Calendar, Gmail, Docs, Hangouts, Maps, Meet, and YouTube. The outage only lasted an hour, but it was a chilling reminder of
