Aurora News

Timeline A brief history of the Illinois Prairie Path: 1961: Land becomes available.

Roughly 1,000 volunteers from Calvary Church in Naperville will go into 16 sites around the community to perform cleanup projects Aug. 2 and 3. Aurora sites where the volunteers will serve include: Gates Elementary, Oak Park Elementary, Bardwell Elementary, Beaupre Elementary, Hermes Elementary, Johnson Elementary, Krug Elementary, Mutual Ground, ... (more)

Kids attending schools throughout Naperville and Aurora are keeping warm during cold days and cool when classes resume in late summer, thanks to the efforts of a local mechanical engineer and his Naperville firm KJWW Engineering Consultants.

A college sophomore from Oak Brook, IL raised in a traditional Indian family, wants to make her own American dream come true with her flat-folding, reusable storage box.

The Obama administration's proposal Wednesday for making oil-laden rail cars safer runs 203 pages and includes a host of new rules for carrying flammable fuels by train - but they come with caveats.

McDonald's outlets in Beijing and Shanghai have yanked their flagship burgers off the menu after a key US supplier recalled products made by its Shanghai factory, which is alleged to have used expired meat.

OSI Group, an Aurora, Illinois-based company at the center of a food scandal in China, said that it was pulling all of the products produced by its Shanghai Husi unit from the marketplace.

OSI Group, an Aurora, Illinois-based company at the center of a food scandal in China, said that it was pulling all of the products produced by its Shanghai Husi unit from the marketplace.

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SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP – Two women were transported for injuries Saturday after a two-car crash north of Sugar Grove village limits, said Josh Lopez, a Sugar Grove Battalion Fire Chief.

It took the DNA of Christ to jump-start the 43rd annual Aurora Puerto Rican Heritage Festival Saturday morning, and the Aurora-based band hit the main stage with such joy and exuberance, it coaxed a bashful sun from its hiding place among the clouds.

Violin virtuoso: Celebrated American violinist Joshua Bell joins with conductor James Conlon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a gala fundraising concert featuring music of Mozart, Bruch and Dvorak on Saturday at the Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park.

Authorities are investigating a scam staged by a woman claiming to be a spiritual healer who inveigled three people out of nearly $8,000 since early July, Aurora police said.

This week a Shanghai television station reported that U.S.-owned meat supplier, Husi Food Co., sold expired beef and chicken to McDonald's and KFC.

Phynea Mitchell tries to greet each person who passes her Designs by Phynea booth at Aurora's Downtown Farmers Market.

By 2017, the decision of who gets to be a Fox Valley Park District commissioner will be in the hands of voters, not county board chairmen.

GENEVA – One of the four custom-made playhouses that will be raffled off for Changing Children's Worlds Foundation's PlayHouse Project will be compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act.

North Aurora residents observe the 2013 North Aurora Days Emergency Vehicle Lights and Sirens Parade in North Aurora.

An employee of a popular downtown Naperville bar remained in jail Thursday night, after he allegedly punched his manager and then slightly injured two Naperville police officers, after escaping from the handcuffs in which they had secured him.

Burglars are targeting vehicles parked on Aurora's west side and have stolen almost $9,000 worth of electronics, purses, wallets, jewelry and other valuables since July 1, police said Thursday.