A planned new Aurora Fire Department headquarters could cost the city nearly $30 million, city staff said at a recent meeting. Last June, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin announced the city’s plans to ...

It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about over the past week: ...

Voter turnout in this past Tuesday’s election was largely contingent on tax hike proposals and the contentiousness of the ...

A Democratic candidate who railed against Elon Musk and his spending cuts flipped an ancestrally Republican district in ...

On election night and in an interview with The Beacon-News on Thursday, Laesch laid out plans for his incoming administration ...

More than a dozen new mayors and village presidents were elected across DuPage and Kane counties last week — some by ...

(From left) Jose Alfredo Pacheco Gonzalez and his brother Jose Gregorio Gonzalez hold hands during a news conference at the Resurrection Project in Pilsen, hours after Jose Gregorio Gonzalez was ...

Aurora Mayor-elect John Laesch says he wants to support living wage jobs in the city. Laesch says residents are tired of ...

In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into ...

A victor has been declared in the Aurora mayoral race and it’s time now that we all stop, inhale deeply, and then focus on ...

In local elections Tuesday, 79 percent of the candidates backed by the Illinois Democratic Party won. Several Republican ...

The Democrats scored several key victories in local elections, unseating Republican-backed incumbents in Illinois and Wisconsin.