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As towns along the Fox River have heightened their efforts to revitalize their shorelines and nearby downtowns, here are the main completed projects and some still in the planning stage.
Aurora
Completed: The Music Garden at RiverEdge Park, an amphi...
Updated: Sep 05, 2013 at 09:47 AM
The Fox River may be any number of things to the communities that sprouted along its banks.
In Aurora, it's home to the new Music Garden at RiverEdge Park and the centerpiece of what some are calling a renaissance in downtown.
In North Aurora, it'...
Updated: Sep 06, 2013 at 05:54 PM
A building planned in South Elgin with 50 apartments for low-income residents and residents with disabilities has already generated interest from prospective tenants.
“We've had many interested parties,” said Tracey Manning, executive director for T...
Updated: Aug 29, 2013 at 11:17 AM
You can't talk about the Fox River in Carpentersville without mentioning Tom Roeser, president and chief executive officer of Otto Engineering, the biggest employer in town.
Roeser's move to spend millions renovating and beautifying his company hea...
Updated: Aug 22, 2013 at 12:38 PM
The Wayne Country Store has caught the eye of many observers as the idyllic community store from a past era.
Area residents were enamored with the old-fashioned store even more when movie star Jessica Lange was there to shoot a segment of her 1990 m...
Updated: Aug 10, 2013 at 06:27 PM
The body of a man who police say apparently drowned Tuesday afternoon in the Fox River in Aurora has been identified.
Bruce J. Grissette, 38, of the 500 block of College Avenue in Aurora, was identified by authorities, police said Wednesday.
An auto...
Updated: Aug 08, 2013 at 05:22 PM
Communities celebrate National Night Out
People throughout the suburbs participated last night in National Night Out, an evening spearheaded by local law enforcement as an effort to promote participation in crime prevention efforts and allow ne...
Updated: Aug 07, 2013 at 10:57 AM
All this fuss about noticing the Fox River; repurposing buildings to take advantage of the Fox River; tourism along the Fox River.
It's been going on for decades in Geneva.
Exhibit 1: The Mill Race Inn. Former blacksmith shop turned into a restauran...
Updated: Aug 01, 2013 at 11:27 PM
A group of architecture graduate students at Judson University studied two buildings in Elgin — the Hemmens Cultural Center and the former Bowes Retirement Center — to see how they can be made more functional.
Students Heather Tricoli and Josh Patte...
Updated: Jul 28, 2013 at 12:46 AM
It's not exactly news when somebody says Batavia could make better use of the Fox River, as did a committee in a 2010 report to the city about its downtown.
“Our residents have an intuitive understanding of the many extraordinary physical assets of ...
Updated: Jul 25, 2013 at 08:43 PM