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The first “Amped Up Adventure Race” on Memorial Day weekend was a big success thanks to the many sponsors, volunteers, racers, and supporters who helped make it happen, despite the 97 degree heat.
The 17 mile race that featured running, biking, kay...
Updated: Jun 19, 2012 at 06:00 AM
The Fox River has provided me a lifetime of recreation — four decades worth that started with boyhood fishing adventures and has evolved into bird-watching kayak trips today.
That beautiful river, our shared community resource, has given me and coun...
Updated: May 31, 2012 at 03:58 PM
Relatives of a Naperville man who died last August saving a child from drowning near a dam along the Fox River in Geneva has sued the city for wrongful death, arguing the city knew about the dangers posed by the lowhead dam but did not do enough to ...
Updated: May 30, 2012 at 01:05 PM
Batavia swimmers will be able to take a dip in a fixed-up Quarry Beach pool Friday — a pool that should leak less and be considerably warmer.
The district began filling the basin at Harold Hall Quarry Beach about two weeks ago, said Jim Eby, Batavia...
Updated: May 29, 2012 at 03:16 PM
Theresa Rogers had her first “adventure racing” experience on what turned out to be a scorchingly hot and humid day Sunday.
Her verdict: “I’d definitely do it again.”
Rogers, a Carol Stream resident, was one of about 130 people who signed up for th...
Updated: May 29, 2012 at 06:43 AM
"Adventure Race" says it all.
Adventure, an exciting and remarkable experience involving danger and unknown risks, is what organizers say participants will find during a new athletic event coming Sunday, May 27, to downtown Aurora - the first Amped...
Updated: May 21, 2012 at 03:43 PM
The overwhelming conclusion about two teens who rafted over the Kimball Street dam in Elgin Saturday, at least from the official standpoint, is that they were extremely lucky.
And also that the young Elgin men made a very poor decision in trying th...
Updated: Apr 24, 2012 at 04:17 PM
Breaking news: Crews fight Elburn barn blaze
Elburn firefighters were called to the scene of a barn fire about 9:45 Monday morning at a property in the 6N500 block of Route 47 near Lily Lake.
No other information was available as firefighters ...
Updated: Apr 24, 2012 at 06:33 AM
Round Lake Beach woman escapes gas attack
Ricardo Rodriguez of Fox Lake was charged in a Friday night attack in Round Lake Beach. A woman managed to escape her home and call police after struggling with a masked intruder who doused her with gas...
Updated: Apr 24, 2012 at 09:12 AM
Elgin fire officials are angered but relieved after two teenagers in an inflatable raft plunged over a downtown dam where two firefighters were killed 40 years ago.
The 16-year-old boys went over the Kimball Street dam on the Fox River twice Saturda...
Updated: Apr 23, 2012 at 11:56 PM