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,
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
July 29th 8am-12pm. Safely dispose of personal documents, checks etc. Minimum of 5 banker boxes worth (cab be in bags). Please remove all large clips and binders. Located at Jefferson Middle School, 1151 Plum St, Aurora.
The Midweek Farmers Market is open Wednesdays through Sept. 27. AURORA, IL — Aurora’s Midweek Farmers Market made its return this week. Located in the former Walmart parking lot at 2131 W. Galena Boulevard, the market is open from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 27. Offerings include more than 20 farm, food and artisan vendors with fresh fruits and vegetables, desserts and homemade gifts and art. Another farmers market in Aurora’s downtown is open from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays through Oct. 21. The signature downtown market is located at the Aurora Transportation Center, 233 N. Broadway Ave.
According to the City of Aurora: Continue reading
A reminder that there is a 5th Ward neighborhood on July 19th. West Aurora Concerned Citizens will be meeting at 6:30pm at Orchard Valley. All 5th Ward residents are welcome.
By Steve Lord Aurora Beacon-News.
A recent online study ranked the city of Aurora as one of the Top 20 best run cities in America. In the study released Monday, Wallet Hub, an online financial website, had Aurora ranked at 20 out of 150 of the country’s largest cities. It is the second year in a row Aurora has cracked the Top 20 in the Wallet Hub survey, having been ranked at 18 in 2016.
“While today marks only my second month in office, for the past decade I have had the honor of serving on the Aurora City Council with dedicated public servants and working with stalwart city staff members who are all committed to doing what is best for Aurora,” said Mayor Richard Irvin. “We are very proud that our efforts are being recognized locally, regionally and nationally.” Continue reading
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