Steve Lord was a professional journalist for 48 years, the past 41 with The Beacon-News in Aurora. He won numerous regional and statewide awards, including two Peter J. Lisagor awards from the Chicago Headline Club. Raised in Naperville, he has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
An Aurora City Council committee recently recommended funding resolutions for Fire Station 13, a new station, and Fire Station 9, which would replace a station in a different location.
The City Council Finance Committee on Thursday recommended no more than $136,570 be paid to International Data Corporation Research, Inc. of Needham, Massachusetts, as a consultant for a policy, strategy...
Aurora will apply for $2 million in special coronavirus block grant money that would fund repairs to heating and air conditioning units for low- and moderate-income apartments.
The delay came at the request of developers Pulte Homes, which wants to put 54 townhouse units on the 22-acre site off Old Eola Road, which runs just to the...
The funds will be seed money for an organization called Elevate Aurora, a merger of the economic development components of Invest Aurora, a not-for-profit economic development arm of the city;...
It took some haggling, several amendments, several votes and eventually two tie votes broken by Mayor Richard Irvin, but the Aurora City Council Tuesday night increased pay for aldermen, beginning...
Aurora officials gave high marks this week to Hollywood Casino-Aurora both for both the progress being made at its new casino resort site, and for the use of local contractors.