Waubonsie Valley High School/Metea Valley High School ice hockey team of Aurora receives a salute from the Aurora City Council at Aurora City Hall for capturing the Illinois State high school hockey championship in the Combined Varsity tournament. Both schools are in District 204.
Recipients of The Exchange Club of Aurora Firefighter of the Year Award pose at Piper’s Banquets in Aurora.
Teams at Benet Academy in Lisle won an impressive three State championships recently in Fall sports.
January 2 Georgia votes to ratify the U.S. Constitution to become the fourth state in the modern United States, and was one of the original 13 colonies. – 1788. Albert Fall, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, resigns in response to public outrage over the Teapot Dome scandal.
The Union Pacific steam engine, built in 1941, is making a run through 23 states, none east of Illinois.
The fine large house at the corner of Oak and Cedar in Aurora’s historic Tanner District will be open one more afternoon to visit and savor the spirit of the holidays which has been enjoyed there for 162 years. The last opportunity to visit the house museum will be from
First of three parts More than 11 Million individuals, six Million of them Jews, died in the Holocaust, 1933-1945. The music they wrote as a temporary escape, however, did not die, thanks in part to the efforts of an Italian composer and pianist, Francesco Lotoro. “The Lost Music” was a
For this week, I thought I’d table the piece I’d planned to write and cash in on the Christmas holiday, even though I’m a day late and a dollar short…the story of my life. With nothing better to do, I began thinking over Christmases past and which ones were memorable.
Ornate pieces which were part of the former Aurora Masonic Temple are on the site which remain following a destructive fire earlier this year.
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
December 26 The first day of the first Kwanzaa is celebrated in Los Angeles under the direction of Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University in Long Beach. The seven-day holiday, which has strong African roots, was designed by Dr. Karenga as a celebration of African
The year is 1574 and the Hotel de Sens in Paris is welcoming Christmas guests. It was where the great lords of the Church lived and they seemed to have been, almost without exception, a rascally lot. The Cardinal of Lorrraine lived here. Some historians insist that Henry IV’s death
December 19 An explosion in the Darr Mine in Westmoreland County, Pa., kills 239 coal-miners. Seventy-one of the dead share a common grave in Olive Branch Cemetery. December 1907 was the worst month in U.S. coal-mining history, with more than 3,000 deaths. – 1907. After nearly 14 hours of debate,
Ben Franklin was a Founding Father and in his 84-year old life, America’s best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of the United States which were the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of
Honoring the late-Victorian period of the Tanner House Museum, the Aurora Historical Society (AHS) has bestowed its holiday season Victoria award on two rooms this year, decorated by Michael Bryant and Kevin and Rachel Rose Bee. The honor, given for the first time last year, recognizes rooms that capture some
December 12 More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Mona Lisa is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia’s hotel room in Florence. Peruggia previously had worked at the Louvre and had participated in the heist with a group
Imagine three Celtic artist monks, secluded in the scriptorium of Iona, or in eastern Scotland, or in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath, Ireland. They welcome in the year 800 A.D. in days filled with extraordinary artistry and commitment. The Book is written on prepared calfskin (vellum) and contains
In 1937, Mr. William Randolph Hearst, newspaper-publishing tycoon, appeared before a committee of the U.S. Congress and requested that it introduce a bill prohibiting the growing, selling, and distribution of hemp. He was very disingenuous in his arguments because the hemp plant produced cannabis, a.k.a marijuana, which, he claimed, was
December 5 A fire at the Brooklyn Theater in New York City kills nearly 300 individuals and injures hundreds more. Some victims perished from a combination of burns and smoke inhalation; others were trampled to death in the general panic that ensued. – 1876. Unionists John T. McNamara and James
The holidays are a great time to remember family traditions and celebrations of the past. Older residents of Montgomery remember the days when Santa Claus rode through town on a sleigh and delivered packages containing candy, fruit, and nuts to all the children. This tradition was started by the Montgomery
