Fourth of July Celebrations 2022 in the Greater Fox Valley area
Aurora • RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway, and McCullough Park, Illinois Avenue and Lake Street, music, games, food, kids activities, will start at 7 p.m.. Fireworks will be Monday, July 4 at 9:15 p.m. over the Fox River with viewing at McCullough Park and RiverEdge Park. • Fourth of July...
Kane County Health Department vaccine in Elgin
The Kane County Health Department (KCHD), in partnership with Illinois Department of Public Health, will provide COVID vaccines at upcoming community COVID vaccination clinics. • Thursday, Aug. 5, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Food for Greater Elgin Vaccination Event, 1553 Commerce Drive, Elgin. • Saturday, Aug. 7, 9...
Fourth of July celebrations 2021
Fourth of July events throughout the greater Aurora area
Kane County Health Department to Open Elgin Vaccination Site April 7
The Kane County Board Office and the Kane County Health Department, in collaboration with Cook County and the City of Elgin, will launch a vaccination site at Elgin’s Eastside Recreational Center, 1080 East Chicago Street, Elgin. It will open Wednesday, April 7, and operate six days per week. Exact days...
Elgin Walk-a-Mile February 8
Elgin Wayside Center will Walk-a-Mile in the shoes of those less fortunate to raise money starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8. All money raised will help benefit Elgin Wayside Center’s efforts to transform lives! The walk will begin with a celebration downstairs at the Progressive Baptist Church, 305 Ann...
Neighborhood Activities 12-5-19
Aurora • Through December 26 Phillips Park Festival of Lights Everyone can drive through one of the largest free light shows in northern Illinois. The Festival of Lights at Phillips Park, 1000 Ray Moses Drive, has more than 25,000 cars every year to view dozens of displays totaling more than...
Neighborhood Activities 10-14-19
Aurora • Through December 12 Neighborhood Festival Funding Grant The city government of Aurora offers financial assistance to organizations planning neighborhood events in 2020. Funding, which is limited to $1,500 per applicant, is made available to assist groups which will be host to public events designed to educate, benefit, organize,...
Nothing But Treble will perform December 14 in Elgin
Nothing But Treble (NBT), Elgin’s premier women’s choral ensemble, will celebrate the holiday season with a concert with music from a variety of times and places at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren, 783 W. Highland Avenue, Elgin. Admission will be a freewill...
Neighborhood Activities 11-7-19
Aurora • Through December 12 Neighborhood Festival Funding Grant The city government of Aurora offers financial assistance to organizations planning neighborhood events in 2020. Funding, which is limited to $1,500 per applicant, is made available to assist groups will be host to public events designed to educate, benefit, organize and/or...
Bird-watching will be in focus November 4
Valley of the Fox Sierra Club invites everyone to its program at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4 at Hawthorne Nature Center, 28 Brookside Drive in Elgin. The speaker will be Vern LaVia, author of the book, Make Earth Great Again. He is an avid bird-watcher and has gone bird-watching to...
Neighborhood Activities 10-31-19
Aurora • Through Friday, Nov. 15 City of Aurora’s annual Gifts from Home The City of Aurora’s annual Gifts from Home program offers our hardworking active members of the military a reminder from their hometown during the holidays. Gifts from Home thanks Aurora residents who are actively serving in the...
Neighborhood Activities 10-24-19
Aurora • Thursday, Oct. 24 • 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Evening Networking Party Aurora Business United and The Aurora Sunrise Rotary Club will have a networking Party on World Polio Day at AC’s Pub, 2124 W. Galena Boulevard, Aurora, behind Dunkin Donuts and Subway. There will be free Appetizers,...
Neighborhood Activities 10-17-19
Aurora • Friday, Oct. 18 • 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. Aurora Historical Society Fall Fund Raiser The fall fundraiser for the Aurora Historical Society will be a Halloween party to include costumes, food, dancing, music, refreshments, a cash bar, and historical characters. The party will be at One East...
Neighborhood Activities 10-3-19
Aurora • Saturday, Oct. 5 • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Community Hero Day Community Hero Day is a free, family friendly event, that will take place on the grounds of the Aurora Regional Fire Museum, 53 N. Broadway. The day will include a variety of safety-related information, pop-up shops,...
Taste of Major League baseball in Wrigley: Ryan Court
By Craig Lynch When last we saw Ryan Court he played with the Iowa Cubs in 2018. Court, a native of Elgin, played baseball at Dundee-Crown High School. He toiled in minor league baseball for seven years for three organizations. He started this season in Arizona with the Chicago Cubs,...
Neighborhood Activities
Aurora • Through October 20 Broadway Series: “Newsies” Straight from the headlines of turn of the century New York comes the true story that had Broadway roaring before it even opened. Joseph Pulitzer is plotting a way to increase the revenue of his declining newspaper; while down in the streets,...
Fox River painting’s reception Sept. 13
The final exhibition of Fox River paintings will open September 14 at Elgin History Museum, 360 Park Street, Elgin, and there will be an opening reception Friday, Sept.13. The exhibit will be available during regular museum hours Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. The final exhibit of the...