Aurora News

As a graduate student at Marshall University in West Virginia, Dwayne D. Williams first became interested in the effect of culture on education.

Doug Truax, a business owner from Downers Grove, who is running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, is shown during a Feb. 6 interview with the editorial board at the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights.

Mario Velezquez has pushed for success in college in memory of his brother, who perished in a 2011 fire in Aurora.

Despite difficult winter conditions, construction crews have made considerable progress on the John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School at Aurora University he John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School at Aurora University is several steps closer to reality, with all three partner school district boards formally approving the agreement for the ... (more)

An Aurora resident was among the members of a Purdue University team that won first place and a $20,000 prize in the 27th annual Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition for the team's business plan for an industrial extrusion process.

Performances of the rock musical Rent , starring Andrew M. Mueller and Adam Michaels as Mark and Roger, respectively, begin at the Paramount Theater in Aurora, IL, March 12. Joining Mueller and Michaels are Adaeze' Kelley as Mimi, Evan Tyrone Martin as Tom Collins, Andrea Prestinario as Maureen, Kelvin Roston Jr. as Benny, Meghan Murphy as Joanne ... (more)

A former Aurora police officer pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft Tuesday even though he stole more than $9,000 from a police union, officials said.

The Aurora Regional Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with SmithAmundsen, LLC, invites company representatives to a legal review seminar from 8 to 10 a.m. Thursday, March 20, at Stonebridge Country Club, 2705 Stonebridge Blvd., Aurora.

A 39-year-old Aurora man faces six felony counts of DUI and numerous other charges in connection with two crashes he triggered Monday night, authorities said Tuesday.

"The Bachelor" finale was filled with many ups and downs , a non-proposal and a mysteriously offensive confrontation in a helicopter.

"The Bachelor" finale was painfully uncomfortable this time around as Juan Pablo Galvais picked Nikki Ferrell over Clare Crawley.

Visitors can join naturalists on tours beginning hourly from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., visiting various stations in the woods to view demonstrations of how maple sap is harvested and turned into maple syrup.

The Kane County Republican Central Committee has censured the 8th District Congressional primary candidate Manju Goel of Aurora for the tactics it claims she is using in her battle with opponent Larry Kaifesh of Carpentersville.

The wife of an Illinois Tollway worker who died in a fiery January crash on the Reagan Memorial Tollway near Aurora is suing the truck driver charged with causing the crash and the trucking company that employed him.

An Aurora man has been charged with felony arson after allegedly setting the porch of a building on fire twice on Saturday.

Lisa Simoncelli-Bulak had kindergarten on the brain two years before she was selected to lead East Aurora School District's new kindergarten center.

Montgomery Village President Matt Brolley told the village board last week he does not believe the village should seek passage of a referendum to give the village Home Rule status under Illinois law.

An employee at Aurora Central High School was arrested Sunday night on charges that he sexually assaulted a special needs student, the Aurora Police Department said.

Not in the real world Watching all levels of government in Kane County is so upsetting.

A Richard's Flexofold wooden sled produced in 1909 in Aurora hangs in the booth of Doug and Diane McElwain's Sport and Spool Antiques of Goldsboro, N.C., on Sunday at the Fox Valley Antique Show at the Kane County Fairgrounds.