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The Beacon-News Monday, December 8, 2025 | | |
| | | | | The Aurora City Council is set to vote on final approval of the proposed budget on Tuesday. | | | | | The Geneva Chamber of Commerce sponsored its annual Christmas Walk on Friday evening, an event that continues to bring thousands to the downtown area in order to take part in a tradition that has spanned nearly seven decades. | | | | | Oswego officials say they are working alongside a family whose 2-year-old son was killed during a fatal crash at a Portillo’s restaurant in the village to improve public building safety standards in town. | | | | | The region was blanketed with 5 inches of snow in what a meteorologist at the National Weather Service called the “quickest start to winter” since 1978. | | | | | Lelanie Posada hits shot at halftime buzzer for 10-point lead as St. Charles North holds on for 43-36 win at Geneva. | | | | | Geneva, Jacobs, Aurora Christian and Yorkville make the biggest moves, while Marmion joins the rankings. | | | | | To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip, Fox Valley Mall in Aurora is featuring a “Peanuts” holiday village, which is on display throu… | | | | | All three major Democratic Senate candidates hail from the Chicago region, potentially ending the upstate-downstate balance maintained by retiring Sen. Dick Durbin for 28 years. | | | |