Kane County news briefs
August 21, 2019AURORA Regional tourism spending jumped 3.7 percent in 2018 Visitors to the Aurora area spent $201.5 million on lodging, gas, dining, and other travel related expenditures in the region…
AURORA Regional tourism spending jumped 3.7 percent in 2018 Visitors to the Aurora area spent $201.5 million on lodging, gas, dining, and other travel related expenditures in the region…
A new LatinX Studies Pathways program at Waubonsee Community College is part of a growing trend in community colleges around the country to provide an opportunity for students…
Aurora’s Paramount Theatre opened up it’s 2019-20 season with an oldie but a goodie that was, well, all about some really good oldies. The 10th annual Happy Together tour, headlined…
ST. CHARLES Wal-Mart store evacuated after masked man enters A WalMart in St. Charles was evacuated last Friday morning when someone spotted a masked man entering the store. The evacuation…
Local U.S representatives, leaders of both public and private college institutions, and concerned parents and students gathered at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove…
Fans of music of the 1960s and 1970s have the chance to enjoy the 10th anniversary of the Happy Together Tour, an annual fall season kickoff at Aurora’s Paramount Theater at 8 p.m….
ELGIN Motorcyclist changed with homicide after high-speed race An Algonquin motorcyclist has been charged with reckless homicide for his role in a high-speed June street race that ended…
After first meeting in ceramics class at Waubonsee Community College nearly 20 years ago, Sue Norris and Mary Jordan today operate Crow’s Nest Studio and Gallery, tucked inside a…
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…
This week’s farm and rural news roundup is led with a report on the Biden administration’s recent rejection of Mexico’s biotech corn compromise, and a study on how food prices…
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education announced Tuesday that Elgin-based School District U-46 Superintendent Tony Sanders will become the next state superintendent of…
Construction is beginning on the $100 million investment for the Illini Hall Replacement and Altgeld Hall Renovation Project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)…