Category: Infrastructure

Aurora Seeks Input on Illinois Prairie Path Crossing at Farnsworth Avenue

The City of Aurora will be host to a Public Information Meeting & Open House to seek public input on the preliminary engineering study for future pedestrian and bicycle crossing improvements across Farnsworth Avenue at Marshall Boulevard and the Illinois Prairie Path. The meeting will be held from 5 p.m.

Aurora City Council focus: Hispanic Heritage Month 2021

By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, mayor of Aurora, Richard C. Irvin presented a proclamation of Hispanic Heritage Month 2021 in Aurora September 15 through October 15. There are many activities planned in Aurora to celebrate the Latinx community. Click here for article. •

Elusive energy regulation in State House near deadline

By Jerry Nowicki The Illinois House was scheduled to return to Springfield Thursday, Sept. 9 to try again at passing an elusive energy regulation overhaul, days after the governor’s office announced support for a new proposal. It’s the latest push for a legislative accomplishment that has eluded governor JB Pritzker

Across the country: Old buildings become affordable housing

Last of two parts First part is at thevoice.us/conversion-projects-in-new-york-solve-two-major-problems That the COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on housing and homelessness, is an article by Pramod Sukumaran in Salud America! “If you were to just apply a conversion rate of 10% we think you could get something like 14,000

Solar energy system installed in Naperville facility

The City of Naperville government, along with the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency (IMEA), was host to a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, June 4 to formally unveil its new solar energy system at the Springbrook Water Treatment Facility, 3712 Plainfield-Naperville Road. Its more than 3,000-panel solar energy system, a testament to

Guatemala gains Auroran Chrissy Wright’s helping hands

An Aurora woman is spending a voluntourism week in Guatemala to help build a rural school from recycled plastic water bottles. Christina “Chrissy” Wright is help build a school in Xeatzán Bajo, Guatemala, in Central America, June 10-16 in a Bottle School Building program sponsored by Hug It Forward, Inc.,

PFC Andrew Meari Highway on its way

A resolution introduced by State representative Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) was adopted in the Illinois House, Wednesday, May 5. HJR11, a joint resolution to honor Private First Class (PFC) Andrew Meari, was adopted with 116 Yes votes, 0 No votes, and 0 Present votes. This joint resolution would rename a portion

State can receive boost with Biden infrastructure

The stars are aligned for Illinois to become a hotspot in the revival of manufacturing across our great American heartland. For example, I propose a really big, transformative, federal-state-private-sector partnership that would create a cutting-edge, computer chip manufacturing and research facility on Arsenal Island, which straddles the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities.

Resurfacing Lake Street in Aurora starts

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that a resurfacing of Lake Street (Illinois 31) from Rathbone Avenue to the Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88), in Aurora, will require daily, intermittent lane closures to start, weather permitting, April 1. The project, which consists of resurfacing the four-mile stretch of Lake Street and

High-tech lighting caresses and illuminates new bridge in Aurora

Bold and beautiful holiday colors are illuminating the downtown skyline of the State’s second-largest city, in Aurora. Some of the high-tech lighting features on Aurora’s newest bridge were turned on just in time for the holidays. Although the bridge’s official opening isn’t until Spring, motorists, pedestrians, and passersby, temporarily can