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
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
The Naperville Park District’s ninth annual holiday lights recycling program, in partnership with Elgin Recycling, will be through February 1, 2020. Residents and businesses are invited to bring their old, nonworking lights to any of the following locations: Alfred Rubin Riverwalk Community Center, 305 W. Jackson Avenue, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.
Steve Chirico, left, mayor of Naperville, and Richard Irvin, mayor of Aurora, show the results of their flu shots Friday.
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,
Continuing her efforts to be accessible to the residents she serves, State representative Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, announces her schedule of Coffee with Kifowit events throughout November. “As State representative, I believe it is very important to be as open, transparent, and accessible as possible for the residents of our community,”
The city government of Naperville is seeking public feedback on a plan that gives details to the management and operation of Naperville’s sanitary sewer system. Public comment will be accepted through December 15. The City’s Capacity, Management, Operations and Maintenance (CMOM) plan is a full study of the Naperville’s sanitary
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
Press conference for individuals who faced racism at Naperville Buffalo Wild Wings November 5, 2019
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
The public is invited to an open house-style informational meeting about potential improvements to 248th Avenue, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, in Meeting Room A/B of the 95th Street Library, 3015 Cedar Glade Road. The purpose of the meeting is to present existing conditions in the
Everyone is invited to drop off their leftover pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns at the Pumpkin Smash from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Ron Ory Community Garden Plots, 811 S. West Street, Naperville. Kids can smash their pumpkins or families may drop off their pumpkins. This is a
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,
The city government of Naperville’s Transportation, Engineering and Development Business (TED) Group will have a second public input session from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 to share updated designs for the first phase of the Downtown Streetscape Project improvements. The public input session is open to the
Construction is complete on the expansion project at Fort Hill Activity Center, 20 Fort Hill Drive in Naperville, and opened up approximately 4,000 square feet of space for group exercise classes. Dubbed “Studio D,” this new fitness space will make its official debut at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25. The
The next educational presentation in the Fort Hill Activity Center Wellness Series will be “Osteoporosis,” given by Courtney Burland, Physician Assistant and Coordinator of the Fracture Liaison Service at DuPage Medical Group. The seminar will be from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23 at Fort Hill Activity Center,
Naperville Park District, in collaboration with the Naperville Healing Field Committee, will be host to the community’s fourth Healing Field of Honor at Rotary Hill, 443 Aurora Avenue, November 1-11. Displaying 2,019 American flags on Rotary Hill during this event creates a stunning tribute to our military and their families
Girl Scouts: What are they up to these days? There are impressive projects by some girls. One girl scout in Naperville, Amelia, has chosen Days for Girls (DFG) as her Gold Award project. She has embraced the mission to create a freer, dignified, and educated world by providing girls access
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,
