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On Thursday, March 10, the Robert R. McCormick House at Cantigny Park, the League of Women Voters of Wheaton, and the League of Women Voters of Central Kane County will host an online presentation in the acclaimed Civic Awareness Series.

Area seventh-grade girls are invited to learn more about Rosary High School by attending a Royal Ramp Up Day on March 11 or April 8 from 9 to 11 a.m.

A teenager charged in a January 2021 Aurora carjacking that left a woman paralyzed was later asked in a video recorded interview with police why he would commit such a crime. "Basically, Im the kind of person that doesnt like walking," the boy replied.

Make three grafts of heirloom varieties to take home for planting this spring at the Antique Apple Grafting Seminar on Sunday, March 13, at Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills.

Al Watts, community engagement director for Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley, was named as a 2022 Bruce MacDougal Advocacy Scholar by the Preservation Action Foundation on Friday, Feb. 18.

A doe sheltering by a tombstone, a found deer skull and antlers, sandhill cranes on the move, and the most extreme rogue wave are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Join It’s All About The Paws and Falkor & Rescue Friends for the second annual Paws on Pavement: Virtual 5K on March 24-27.

Albright Community Theatre in Batavia is putting on Noel Cowards comic classic "Blithe Spirit" through March 5.

Our smorgasbord of wild weather this week served up thunderstorms, hail and freezing rain today. Next up on the menu is snow starting late Thursday for Chicago.

In honor of National Poetry Month this April, Aurora Downtown is hosting a call for poems. The theme is "Rebirth" and poems will be reviewed by the citys poet laureate.