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The City Council took an important step in bolstering public safety, holding DUI offenders responsible for their actions, making police operations more efficient and saving taxpayers over $100,000 dollars annually, when they voted yesterday to hire a private law firm to handle all DUI arrests in the City of Aurora. Continue reading

The Aurora Town Club, a vintage ​baseball ​team of Aurora Police Department officers, will play its season and home finale at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26.

Town Club will host the Milwaukee Juneaus at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 2567 W. Sullivan Rd. in Aurora. Continue reading

Aurora Animal Care and Control (AACC) and the Humane Society of Aurora are collaborating with NBC and Telemundo television stations this weekend to find loving homes for pets in need during the annual “Clear the Shelters” event.  Continue reading

On Wednesday August 16 the West Aurora Concerned Citizens neighborhood group will be holding their monthly meeting at the new 5th Ward meeting space at 1921 W. Galena Blvd. in West Plaza. The meeting starts at 6:30. This will be the first public event there. Mayor Irvin will be in attendance to kick off the new venue. All 5th ward residents are invited and encouraged to shop in West Plaza before and after the meeting.

Save the Date!

We’ll be helping our friends at Culver’s serve hungry patrons and raise money for Special Olympics Illinois from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, August 10 at 509 Illinois Rt. 59. We’ll be donating any tips, and proceeds from selling Law Enforcement Torch Run memorabilia to Special Olympics. Culver’s will be donating $1 for every Concrete Mixer sold that day to the Special Olympians.  Hope to see you there!

FREE CONCERT-  Aurora American Legion Band- 1937 to 2017, Celebrating  their 80 Year Anniversary with a concert on Sunday July 30th at 2pm in the West Aurora High School Auditorium.

Positive economic development news. There is a contract to purchase Cosmopolitan Market Place by Aurora Packing. They are a meat processing business now located in North Aurora. Their plan is to bring the already slaughtered meat from North Aurora to Aurora for processing. Per our request, they will also incorporate a retail butcher shop. They are hoping to model it after Reams which is a butcher shop in Elburn that provides quality meat products. They believe they will be bringing over 100 new jobs to the area also. Truck traffic will be minimal and and all noise and odor created by the business will be confined inside the building. All the particulars with drawings and such still need to go through city council. That will take a few months. I anticipate that the process will go smoothly and provide a much needed anchor business in that area.

Our major crime statistics for the first six months of 2017 show an 18.2 percent drop in violent crime while property crimes were almost flat (actual increase of 0.2 percent) when compared to the first six months of 2016. Total crime in the city is down 3.6 percent over the same period last year. Continue reading

Aurora police released the list of intersections with the most traffic accidents so far this year.

Aurora police released the accident statistics showing the intersections with the most traffic crashes from Jan. 1 to June 30.

The most dangerous intersection was on N. Eola Road at Indian Trail and North Aurora Road with 32 crashes. Following in a close second were New York and Rt. 59, as well as Rt. 56 and Eola with 30 accidents each so far this year. Eola and New York had 27 accidents. Indian Trail and Lake, Galena and Smith and Montgomery & Rt. 59 each had 24. The intersections of McCoy and Rt. 59, and Eola and Liberty, each had 23 accidents. “Let’s be careful out there Aurora!” Aurora police said in a Facebook post.

PIO Dan Ferrelli, Aurora IL Police Department

Please remember that the anonymity the internet offers can be a haven for crooks. Our best advice is if you sell or buy items over the internet, we suggest you meet the other party at the Aurora Police Department— either in our lobby or parking lot— to do the actual transaction. If the other party doesn’t agree to meet there, maybe they’re not who they’re purporting to be.  Continue reading