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
Oswego-based businesses have just two days to apply to a second round of grants, worth up to $20,000 total,to mitigate the effects of COVID-19. Monday, Dec. 21, the Village of Oswego announced that additional funds became available for Local CURE Economic Support grants. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m.
By Sarah Mansur Infection control efforts at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home have curbed the spread of the COVID-19 since a deadly outbreak began at the facility last month, according to officials who testified Wednesday before a House committee investigating the matter. That outbreak has caused at least 33 resident deaths,
By Peter Hancock Illinois’ presidential electors officially cast their 20 ballots Monday for the Democratic Party ticket of Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris, marking the all-but-final step in a bitterly-contested presidential election that incumbent president Donald Trump has refused to concede. “Today, all over the country, electors just like
Naperville paid tribute to its fallen firefighters with the December 7 unveiling of the new Ladder of Light at Firemen’s Memorial Park.
Judge Rene Cruz, left, 16th Judicial Circuit Court, holds the swearing-in ceremony of Mavis Bates of Aurora as Kane County Board member for District 4 in a COVID-safe ceremony in the back parking lot of the Kane County Courthouse.
The City of Naperville government received a $100,000 grant from the State of Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity for a photovoltaic system that recently was installed atop the City’s Electric Service Center at 1392 Aurora Avenue. The grant helped support the design, planning, scheduling, permitting and construction of
By Jerry Nowicki The first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arrived in Illinois Monday, but officials said there’s still a need for social distancing, face coverings and other mitigations as a full rollout could take months. While governor JB Pritzker hailed distribution
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, the City Council thanked deputy mayor Chuck Nelson for his service to Aurora. Everybody loves Chuck! That was the theme for the man who was born and raised in Aurora.
Since mid-November, Naperville donors have been dropping off new, unwrapped toys at Naperville Park District facilities to assist the Park Police in collecting toys for children in need in our area. The Naperville collection is part of the DuPage County Toys for Tots program, hosted by the U.S. Marine Corps
By John W. Whitehead “Look! You fools! You’re in danger! Can’t you see? They’re after you! They’re after all of us! Our wives…our children…they’re here already! You’re next!”—Dr. Miles Bennell, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) It’s similar to the Invasion of the Body Snatchers all over again. The Nation
By Bela (Bill) Suhayda Stealing this or any election is not a risky proposition for Democrats. Media joins them in running interference… even “blacking out” (censorship by omission) the fraud that continues to be the 2020 election, along with a host of other corrupt activity. Dems stole their own primary
Politically, Illinois House speaker and State Democratic Party chairman Mike Madigan is a dead man walking. The recent ComEd admissions of a decade of bribery killed him. And so, the struggle for new leadership is under way, mostly behind the scenes for the moment. Madigan has more or less ruled
Chuck Nelson is synonymous with Aurora. A lifelong Auroran who has served as both an elected official and an executive, the City’s first deputy mayor is preparing to retire this month after a nearly 30-year career in public service at City Hall. “Chuck is an Aurora institution in and of
Jennifer Stallings, left, City clerk of Aurora, extends a selection opportunity to deputy City clerk, Socorro Flores, in the ballot position drawing for mayor in the April 23 primary election.
By Sarah Mansur As the Illinois State government attempts to close a multi-billion-dollar budget-hole, Democratic Party House speaker Michael Madigan has said he is prepared to vote for an increase to the State’s flat income tax rate should governor JB Pritzker request it, a proposal met with pushback from his
Judge orders government to fully reinstate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by Caitlin Dickerson and Michael D. Shear was in The New York Times. “Up to 300,000 additional undocumented immigrants could be allowed to apply for protection from deportation under a new court ruling. President Trump sought to
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, the City Council unanimously approved a $406,358,000 balanced budget for 2021. The meeting can be viewed on the City’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eygew_SaQfU There were no speakers for the budget public hearing, or the three
Jim Oberweis, candidate for Congress in the 14th District, is issued the following statement on the discovery recount his campaign has formally launched: “Today my campaign has formally initiated the process to begin a discovery recount. We are seeking a discovery recount in each of the seven counties within the
