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Blues on the Fox, an annual celebration of blues music, returns June 14-15 to RiverEdge Park in Aurora. (Thomas J. King)

Aurora looks to expand RiverEdge Park improvement project

June 12, 2024 at 3:40 p.m.

Aurora is looking to expand the contract and project to renovate the backstage area and other parts of RiverEdge Park.

Aurora leaders are looking at plans for a new streetscape on Broadway, seen here at its intersection with New York Street downtown. (Steve Lord / The Beacon-News)

Aurora moving closer to remake of Broadway downtown

June 11, 2024 at 4:14 p.m.

City officials are looking at plans for the new Broadway streetscape, which would include getting rid of on-street parking along the road.

West Aurora School Superintendent Jeff Craig, left, talks to Linnea Windel, VNA Health Care president and CEO, and other VNA officials during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for the new Jeff Craig Family Resource Center on Aurora's West Side. (Steve Lord / The Beacon-News)

New VNA Health Center at former Aurora school called a ‘significant milestone’

June 10, 2024 at 3:57 p.m.

The VNA Health Center at the Jeff Craig Family Resource Center, housed in the former Mary Todd School at Oak and New York streets on the near West Side of...

Neighbor Project and Community Foundation partner for affordable housing

June 10, 2024 at 11:02 a.m.

The Neighbor Project has placed $1 million in its fund with the Community Foundation.

The city of Aurora is looking at a new funding arrangement with the Aurora Civic Center Authority, which manages the Paramount Theatre, as well as RiverEdge Park. (Linda Girardi / For The Beacon-News)

Aurora still working on new funding arrangement with Civic Center Authority

June 7, 2024 at 6:01 p.m.

The funding arrangement is considered a long-term solution spending plan detailing the financial relationship between the city and the Civic Center Authority.

Aurora set to appoint first student to city board

June 7, 2024 at 5:35 p.m.

Aldermen will vote at the Tuesday regular City Council meeting on the appointment of Michael Handzic, a Metea Valley High School junior, to the Bicycle, Pedestrian and Transit Advisory Board.

Keri Traid, left, an entertainer and LGBTQ+ and transgender community advocate, helps raise the Pride flag in downtown Aurora on Friday. (Steve Lord / The Beacon-News)

Flag-raising celebrates Pride weekend in Aurora

June 7, 2024 at 4:55 p.m.

For the third year, city officials raised the Pride flag in One Aurora Plaza on Friday, the beginning of Pride weekend in Aurora.

Aurora City Council to vote on rezoning for West Side restaurant

June 6, 2024 at 3:16 p.m.

Under the plan, the 1.5-acre site would be home to Mariscos El Vallartizo, a seafood restaurant.

Jeff Levine, chief operating officer of Mesirow Financial, rings a ceremonial bell held by Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin this week to symbolize the opening of the company's new office in Aurora. (City of Aurora)

Chicago-based Mesirow Financial opens office in Aurora

June 5, 2024 at 5:50 p.m.

Mesirow's new Aurora office is in downtown Aurora, just two blocks west of Aurora City Hall on Downer Place.

Participants march in the Aurora Pride Parade in 2018. This year's parade will begin at noon Sunday in downtown Aurora. (Sean King / For The Beacon-News)

Flag-raising, parade to be part of Pride celebration in Aurora

June 5, 2024 at 4:07 p.m.

There will be activities all weekend in the city for Aurora’s Pride celebration.

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