Holiday season in Aurora starts with Winter Lights
November 17, 2022The city of Aurora’s official kick-off to the holiday season begins at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18 with the Winter Lights event in downtown Aurora. The parade steps off at 6:30…
Christkindlmarket has returned to the Chicago area providing a memory making experience for many people who have made the market a holiday tradition. The Daley Center Plaza in downtown…
The city of Aurora’s official kick-off to the holiday season begins at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18 with the Winter Lights event in downtown Aurora. The parade steps off at 6:30…
The Cantigny horticulture department will host its annual Shades of Crimson Poinsettia Display and Sale on Thursday, Nov. 17. Hours are 12 to 6 p.m. for this popular holiday event at…
Sunny skies with 78 degrees provided banner weather for a garden party at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle Sept. 16. The Friday afternoon party was The Grand Garden ribbon cutting at The…
The Metra Board of Directors on Aug. 17 approved a first-of-its-kind plan to convert up to six of Metra’s oldest diesel locomotives to zero-emission battery power. “This procurement…
The state’s Open Space Land Acquisition and Development (OSLAD) program announced $30.3 million in grants for 87 local park projects that will help communities acquire open space…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Republican Floor Leader Mark Batinick, a self-described “policy guy,” came to Springfield with the goal of pushing good policy. A father of five who…
Barge traffic is getting back to normal on the lower Mississippi River for what’s typically a slower time of the year anyway. “The water levels are back up to normal south of Cairo…
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week asked the College Board for more information about its reasoning for changing the final framework of a new Advanced Placement course in…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois schools are still grappling with a teacher shortage that seems to only be getting worse, a recent survey by the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents…
The New Philadelphia National Historic Site in western Illinois, commemorating the first U.S. town to be legally founded by African Americans, is the nation’s newest national park….
SPRINGFIELD – Exactly 38 months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Illinois will no longer be under a disaster proclamation as of May 11, Gov….
SPRINGFIELD – A temporary restraining order that partially blocks Illinois’ new assault weapons ban from being enforced will remain in place after a divided state appellate court…