Aurora News

Aurora Police Officer Matthew Bonnie was named the recipient of the Louis Spuhler Award for the Kane County Police Officer of the Year during a banquet Thursday night at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St Charles .

The Northeastern Illinois Agency on Aging held its annual meeting on April 12. The featured speaker was Ann Ford, executive director of the Illinois Network of Centers for Independent Living.

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of the estate of Kim Presbrey, an Aurora attorney who died of medical complications following a 2012 single-engine plane crash in Florida.

In a brief phone conversation after finding her 16-year-old daughter brutally slain, Valerie Justice testified Wednesday, her then-husband suggested he already knew about the murder and claimed to have nothing to do with it.

These are incidents reported by the Naperville Police Department. Where charges have been filed, the report includes when and where the suspect was stopped or taken into custody and the nature of the charges.

An Elgin woman faces felony charges for promoting the prostitution of a 17-year-old girl, following a three-month undercover investigation conducted by Aurora police.

GENEVA – The Kane County Board moved closer to signing off on plans to build a firearms training range at the Kane County Sheriff's Office.

A yearlong moratorium on new online charter schools has passed the Illinois Senate and now goes to Gov.

Kane County State's Attorney Joe McMahon Wednesday said "education and not prosecution" was the best route to follow after West Aurora District 129 officials failed to report suspected sexual abuse by a former high school band director in summer 2010.

This year, summer begins in the parking lot at Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora.

The city will work with the Fox Valley Park District to launch July 4 fireworks from Veterans Island, city officials said Tuesday.

Danny Hisaw is piping mad. Imagine his surprise when earlier this month, he came home to find a stream of scantily clad women filtering in and out of the supposedly vacant house next door.

Brian Craft of Yorkville finished third in 24:10 in the men's division of the Aurora Noon Lions Club's inaugural "Lions in the Park" 5K family fun run and walk on Sunday, May 19.

At this time of the year, when vehicle burglaries always seem to heat up, it's good to see an arrest by Batavia police.

Crews from the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District will start work at 7 a.m. Thursday on Galena Boulevard in Aurora to repair a sinkhole adjacent to a Fox Metro sewer.

In June 2011, Waubonsee moved its downtown Aurora operations to a new 132,000-square-foot state-of-the-art campus across the Fox River at 18 S. River St.

"We are human beings. We are able to walk upright on two feet. We need a footpath," the Naperville naturalist wrote in a 1963 letter to the editor.

With the end of May in sight, Aurora is on track to be close to last year's all-time low for the number of shooting incidents occurring throughout the city.

Inspired by outdoor entertainment facilities in Chicago's Millennium Park and Northerly Island, and Milwaukee's Summerfest, the RiverEdge Music Garden is conveniently located at 360 North Broadway, just steps from Aurora's downtown business district, directly across from the Metra station, and on the east bank of the Fox River.

"We needed to do more with the land," Fox Valley Park District trustee J.A. Lippold said at the time, "and make more 'people-use' of it." Jericho Lake Park had just been completed, with a modest sports complex alongside that featured a handful of soccer fields.