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A former Batavia alderman, Thomas Connelly, announced his intention to run for mayor in the April 2025 consolidated election.
A 35-year-old Batavia man was killed in a single vehicle crash late Tuesday.
An acclaimed violinist, a celebrity WGN-TV meteorologist with multiple Emmys, another Emmy winner who created Christian television station WCFC-TV/Channel 38 and the wise-cracking bandleader on “The Dick Cavett Show” are the latest inductees into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame.
Harbor Freight Tools plans to open its new store April 6 at 381 N. Randall Road, Batavia.
The shop’s mission is to provide high-quality, upscale products to improve the lives of cherished pets as well as those who love them.
The Batavia Park District hosted an Easter Egg Hunt and visits with the Easter Bunny at West Main Park on Saturday, March 23, 2024.
There is an assortment of opportunities for fiber arts fans to gather, share ideas, and work on projects either in person or over zoom through libraries in Kane and Kendall communities.
The PPFV's 50th anniversary will take place March 26.
Six vehicles were reported entered or burglarized overnight from late Tuesday to early Wednesday on the west side of Batavia.
Here are five things to do in Kane County this weekend, March 15-17
Five egg hunts and/or Easter events planned throughout Kane County hosted by the Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles park districts.
Batavia accepted the APWA Fox Valley Branch Project of the Year Award in the Environment category at a luncheon earlier in the year.
The BFEE announces who the eight 2024 Hall of Honor Inductees are.
For every voter who cast a ballot last April to decide the fate of Batavia Unit District 101′s request to borrow $140 million to rebuild and renovate multiple schools, two other voters stayed home. And that turnout was high among suburban counties.
Illinois had 46 February tornadoes between 1995 and 2022. And 11 two weeks ago, according to the National Weather Service. What causes out-of-season storms? Does climate change play a role? Some experts weigh in: