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The Beacon-News Wednesday, September 3, 2025 | | |
| | The city of Aurora’s Fiestas Patrias celebration will include the first parade to be held for the holiday in Aurora since 2019. | | | The tentative budget shows operating expenditures at $221 million, an increase of $4.6 million – or 2.1% – over the 2024-25 budget. Revenue is projected at $222 million, an increase of $3.7 million – or 1.7 % – over the 2024-25 budget. | | | While saying he still intended to send the National Guard to Chicago over crime, President Donald Trump did not specify a date. | | | President Donald Trump’s Justice Department seeking Illinois voter birth dates, driver’s license numbers, signatures and partial Social Security numbers. | | | A Geneva man was arrested on Aug. 27 and charged with 16 felony counts of possessing and reproducing child pornography, according to a news release from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office and Kane County Sheriff’s Office. | | | The 49th annual Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival featured performers from across the country over the Labor Day holiday weekend at Wheeler Park in Geneva. | | | Lesroy Tittle, who played for three straight Nazareth state championship teams, transfers to West Aurora. | | | Lincoln Ijams catches five passes for 110 yards and a TD as Oswego East rolls to a 41-0 win over Joliet West. | | | |