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A Focus on History: March 27 through April 2

On March 25, 2025March 25, 2025 By admin

March 27 The University of Oregon defeats The Ohio State University, 46-33, in the championship game of the first NCAA men’s basketball tournament at Northwestern University in Evanston. The tournament, which started with eight teams, since has grown to 68 teams and has grown exponentially in popularity since 1939. –...

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Aurora’s Buildings, businesses, and streets: Luxembourg Club

On March 18, 2025March 19, 2025 By admin

By Ricky Rieckert(Part 1 of 3) Dear readers, This week, on Aurora’s Buildings, Businesses, and Streets, we’re heading to the Luxembourg Club (Luxie’s), 416 High Street. We’re parking the History of Aurora Tour Bus, up front in the north lot, off of Front Street, used by Art’s Body Shop during...

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Basketball champions in 1963, college and high school

On March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 By admin

By Woodrow Carroll It’s a week that sports fans especially relish. And, we are talking about the first week of the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. A total of 68 teams have earned a spot in this season’s men’s tournament. From the time the first men’s final took place in 1939,...

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A Focus on History: March 20 through March 26

On March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 By admin

March 20 U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson notifies Alabama’s governor George Wallace that he will use federal authority to call up the Alabama National Guard in order to supervise a planned civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. – 1965. Several packages of deadly sarin gas are set off in...

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History of Aurora: Down Jackson, K.D. Waldo, school stories

On March 11, 2025March 12, 2025 By admin

By Ricky Rieckert Greetings, The Voice readers! This week, as we start another week of The History of Aurora: Buildings, businesses, and streets on the History of Aurora Tour Bus, we’re heading from the start of Jackson Street at E. Downer Place, (originally Fox Street), to the south. On the...

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A Focus on History: March 13 through March 19

On March 11, 2025March 11, 2025 By admin

March 13 The German-born English astronomer William Hershel discovers Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. Herschel’s discovery of a new planet was the first in modern times, and the first by use of a telescope, which allowed Herschel to distinguish Uranus as a planet, not a star, as previous...

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Aurora History Tour Bus down, W. Benton, Stolp Island

On March 4, 2025March 8, 2025 By admin

By Ricky Rieckert Dear readers, We start off this week in our tour of Aurora, on W. Benton Street, heading west toward S. River Street, from the former Post Office and Sci-Tech building. As we cross over the west branch of the Fox River, take notice that between the east...

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A Focus on History: March 6 through March 12

On March 4, 2025March 4, 2025 By admin

March 6 With the Great Depression under way, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrate in 30 cities and towns; close to 100,000 filled Union Square in New York City and were attacked by mounted police. – 1930. March 7 Twenty-nine-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary...

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Aurora History Tour Bus stops by former Elks Club, Sci-Tech

On February 25, 2025February 26, 2025 By admin

By Ricky Rieckert Dear faithful subscribers, readers, and all. This week, the Aurora History Tour Bus, is at the northwest corner of Benton Street and Stolp Avenue, (originally known as Island Avenue). This building, was home to the Aurora Elks Club. It was a beautiful two-story brick building. When I...

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McClymonds High, sports greats, breaking race barrier

On February 25, 2025February 25, 2025 By admin

By Woodrow Carroll There are a number of high schools around the country that as soon as you mention the school’s name there is almost instant recognition. And, very often the recognition is based on the school’s athletic achievements. With that in mind let’s hone in on McClymonds High School...

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A Focus on History: February 27 through March 5

On February 25, 2025February 25, 2025 By admin

February 27 A group of masked and costumed students dance through the streets of New Orleans, La. to mark the beginning of the city’s famous Mardi Gras celebrations. – 1827. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which provides for female suffrage, is unanimously declared constitutional by the eight members...

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A Focus on History: February 13-19

On February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 By admin

February 13 Italian philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, Galileo Galilei, arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for...

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Aurora history tour bus, E. Benton

On February 4, 2025February 5, 2025 By admin

By Ricky Rieckert Greetings one and all. Board the Aurora history tour bus, as we proceed on Benton Street. This week, heading west on E. Benton Street, the wrong way from Lincoln Avenue to Lasalle Street. On the southwest corner was, from what I know of, the Aurora Barber College....

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A Focus on History: February 6-12

On February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 By admin

February 6 After a long illness, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham. Princess Elizabeth, the eldest of the king’s two daughters and next in line to succeed him, was in Kenya at the time of her father’s...

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Aurora’s past: Down E. Benton; Masonic Temple now grass

On January 28, 2025January 28, 2025 By admin

By Ricky Rieckert Hello fellow The Voice followers. This week, we’re going to start at E. Benton Street, starting at S. Ohio Street. On the northwest corner is Beaupre School, on the Northside built in 1908, I believe, along with Bardwell School on S. Lincoln Avenue, at the same time....

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American Indian Boarding School Stories at Aurora University Museum

On January 28, 2025January 28, 2025 By admin

Aurora University’s Schingoethe Center museum will exhibit “Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories” Jan. 28-March 14. The event at the museum in the Hill Welcome Center, 1315 Prairie St. in Aurora, will display photos from a permanent exhibition at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz. “Away” explores off-reservation...

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A Focus on History: January 30 through February 5

On January 28, 2025January 28, 2025 By admin

January 30 During a funeral service in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol to honor the late U.S. representative Warren R. Davis of South Carolina, a man discharged two pistols in the direction of U.S. president Andrew Jackson. Both weapons misfired, and the shooter was promptly subdued and arrested....

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Recalling Aurora’s history: Down West Downer

On January 21, 2025January 22, 2025 By admin

By Ricky Rieckert Last week, I finished up at W. Downer and S. River Street in Aurora’s past. This week we’ll start there and head west. On the northwest corner of Downer and River is the Old Second National Bank. I believe it’s the oldest bank in Aurora. The bank...

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A Focus on History: January 23 through January 29

On January 21, 2025January 21, 2025 By admin

January 23 An earthquake in Shaanxi, China, kills an estimated 830,000 persons. Counting casualties is often imprecise after large-scale disasters, especially prior to the 20th Century, but this disaster is still considered the deadliest of all time. – 1556. Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with the highest grades in her class when...

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Happy b-day to Evelyn; down Fox Street to new Waubonsee

On January 14, 2025January 15, 2025 By admin

By Ricky Rieckert To start with this week in an historical look back at Aurora, I forgot to add the addresses of both Fox Theaters. The Original, on Fox Street, was 24-28 Fox Street (three units). The New Fox Theater on Main Street, was 54 E. Main Street. Just west...

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