March 2, 2024Dear editor; As the Spring primary election season is in full swing, the League of Women Voters of Central Kane County, along with the local leagues of the Aurora area and the Elgin area have just completed being host to two forums for candidates in contested races for...
The League of Women Voters of the Aurora Area and Central Kane County will be co-host to a hybrid forum Thursday, Feb. 22, for the 2024 General Primary candidates in the Illinois State representative in the 83rd District and U.S. Congress in the 11th District. The forum will be held...
The League of Women Voters’ Aurora Area will present Bought and Paid For? The influence of money on representative government at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 21 at the Aurora Santori Public Library, 101 S. River Street, Aurora. The League will have Alisa Kaplan, executive director of Reform Illinois, give information...
Cantigny Park and the League of Women Voters invite the public to their next Civic Awareness Series program at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jim Slusher of the Daily Herald Editorial Board will lead a discussion on ideas for election reform. The free, online, program will be conducted through Zoom....
Voters of the Aurora 6th Ward are invited to attend an online forum at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, featuring the candidates running for the 6th Ward alderman in the primary election. Five candidates are on the February 28 Primary Election ballot: Incumbent Michael B Saville, Matthew J Orr, Nicole...
The League of Women Voters Aurora Area announced recently it will be host to a community forum to learn about the impact of climate change at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24 at the Aurora Public Library District Santori branch. Participants may attend online using Zoom by registering at the Aurora...
Cantigny Park and the League of Women Voters invite the public to their next Civic Awareness Series program at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13. Terry Wu, Ph.D., will present “Improving Civil Discourse: The Science of Us vs. Them.” The program is in-person and online. Registration is not required for those...
League of Women Voters Aurora Area and Aurora Public Library will present Redistricting How Can We Do It Better from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20 at the Aurora Santori Library, 101 S. River Street, Aurora. Many of us prefer to leave politics to the politicians, but we...
The League of Women Voters chapters falling within the Illinois Second Judicial District is a partner with the DuPage NAACP to host a hybrid forum Sunday, Sept. 18 for the judicial candidates running in the November 8 General Election for Illinois Supreme Court and Illlinois Appellate Court seats. Both Appellate...
August 18, 2022Dear editor; The Fall general election season is in full swing. With that comes candidate forums. As a 100+ year old, trusted organization, it is the League of Women Voters’ tradition to host candidate forums which voters use to get educated on candidates’ positions on issues of importance...
The League of Women Voters Aurora Area will be host to two virtual candidate forums Wednesday, June 1 for candidates running in the Democratic Primary for the Illinois House of Representatives District 83 and the Democratic Party Primary for Judge of the Circuit Court 16th Judicial Circuit (Kane County). The...
A coalition of northern Illinois chapters of the League of Women Voters will be host to a Candidate Forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 focused on Illinois Supreme Court and Illinois Appellate Court judge seats in the 2nd District. The 2nd Judicial District is comprised of DeKalb, Kane, Kendall,...
A consortium of 10 northern Illinois LWV (League of Women Voters) organizations will be host to a forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 11 for the candidates running in the June 28 General Primary for the Republican Party nomination for U.S. Congress in the 11th District. The forum will be...
Recognizing that global climate change demands local climate action, the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Central Kane County invites individuals from the Tri-City Area (Batavia-Geneva-St. Charles) and surrounding region to a lively online discussion and planning session, to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 14, on Zoom. Register...
The League of Women Voters (LWV) Aurora Area will hold an immigration forum at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 at the Aurora Public Library District (APLD) Santori, 101 S. River Street. We’ll be live-streaming it on our Facebook site. Here are the details. Please know that the program title...
By Jason Crane An Aurora mayoral candidate forum Monday, March 1 through the Zoom video conference platform, allowed viewers to learn more about the three candidates seeking the job as mayor of Aurora for the next four years. An election will be Tuesday, April 6. League of Women Voters Aurora...
The League of Women Voters (LWVCKC) and the Geneva Chamber of Commerce will be partners for a candidate forum at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at Geneva Public Library, 227 S. Seventh Street, Geneva. The candidates for mayor of Geneva, Kevin Burns and Tom Simonian, have been invited to participate....
By Jason Crane An Aurora mayoral candidate forum Monday, through the Zoom video conference platform, allowed viewers to learn more about the three candidates seeking the job as mayor of Aurora for the next four years. An election will be Tuesday, April 6. League of Women Voters Aurora Area Mayoral...
Here is the League of Women Voters Aurora Area (LWVAA) forum schedule and voter guide access for the consolidated election Tuesday, April 6. Forums: • Aurora Alderman at Large: Wednesday, Feb. 24, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.. • Aurora Alderman Wards 4, 7, 10: Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m. to...
January 7, 2021Dear editor; January 6 was a dark day in the history of the United States of America. The activities on Capitol Hill should have been a procedural exercise to finalize the 2020 election. Indeed, our Nation’s Capitol was attacked by domestic terrorists seeking to invalidate the will of...
