Author: Fox Valley Magazine

The West Chicago Park District’s annual Taco & Art Fest is on July 16 starting at 3:00pm at Reed- Keppler Park. Bring your friends and family to this fun outdoor event filled with food, music, and art. Enjoy musical performances from Leman Folkloric Ballet, Holy Cross-Immaculate Heart of Mary Marimba Ensemble, The Luna Blues Machine, and ÉSSO. Artists and vendors will have a wide range of art forms including carving, face painting, pottery, chalk, and much more, all in honor of the Mexican Cultural Center and Cantigny Park’s DuPage Alebrijes campaign. Be sure to visit during the Taco Wars to…

We’ve been here before. In the wake of a series of mass shootings involving semi-automatic rifles, the cry for a ban on the manufacture and sale of so-called “assault weapons” has continued to rise in frequency and volume. After the Highland Park massacre, the local state’s attorney and now Governor JB Pritzker have publicly called for both state and national bans, with the latter calling for a special session of the Illinois legislature to address Illinois law to that effect. The emotion sparked by each successive incident, with the horrifying scenes of bloody bodies and people running in terror -…

Local artist and resident in the Aurora area Johnny Felix created Talento Creations in November 2021. The name of “TALENTO” is a reference to “TALENT” to express his artwork to motivate youth and adults of his unique art creation. What is unique… he uses halogram glitter to create movement and his new trend “Urban Pulse” was inspired by seeing heartbeat monitors at a hospital. Two important trends in Johnny Felix artwork is that on the back of every canvas or reprint he has created quotes to inspire the audience to the overall perspective of the artwork and the second is…

By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinois In the wake of a July 4 mass shooting in Highland Park that left seven people dead and dozens more injured, Gov. JB Pritzker is calling for a ban at both the state and national levels on military-style assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. The governor made those calls on national cable television and at the White House in recent days. “While I support an assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban at the state level, we urgently need federal regulation on the weapons of war and high-capacity magazines that are used only for mass murder,” Pritzker…

At approximately 11:30 p.m. Monday evening, a confrontation in downtown Naperville led to a man shooting a handgun and escaping with another man before police arrived. No injuries have been reported. At 11:41pm, Naperville police responded to the area of the 100 block of West Jackson Avenue for a report of a subject with a weapon. Based on the preliminary information received from witnesses on scene, two men had confronted these witnesses about an earlier altercation that had occurred. One of those men was armed with a handgun. The men then reportedly confronted another group of people in the area…

Join the Yorkville Parks and Recreation Department for a weekend filled with live country music, family activities, cardboard boat races, craft beer tasting and more! Yorkville River Fest is a family-friendly festival held along the scenic Fox River at Riverfront Park at 131 E Hydraulic Ave. in Yorkville. For more information on all the fun held at River Fest see below or got to Yorkville River Fest. *LIVE COUNTRY MUSIC* FRIDAY, JULY 15 Gone Country (7-10pm) SATURDAY, JULY 16 Yankee Cowboy (Noon-2pm)In The Stix (3-6pm)Whiskey Romance (7-10pm) FAMILY ACTIVITIES Piñatas (Sat, Noon-5pm)Meet Moana & Maribel (Sat, 1-4pm)Moana’s Voyage Obstacle Course…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground. This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images…

As previously reported, two people were wounded by gunfire in an incident early Saturday morning in Elgin. The shooting reportedly occurred previously in the 300 block of Willard Avenue, near Prairie Park, although the victims contacted EPD from the 100 block of Tennyson Ave in the Elgin Historic District. Evidence of gunfire was located on Willard. The victims, two adult females, where found to have non-life-threatening injuries from the attack. After investigating the incident and a review of the facts of the case by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, an 18-year-old Elgin man was arrested and charged with two…

The Kane County Fair celebrates 153 years of traditional summer family fun and 4-H on Wednesday, July 13 through Sunday, July 17. 2022 at the Kane County Fairgrounds in St. Charles.  It’s a big, fun-fair, with a small town feel, filled with exciting grandstand events, popular live bands, unlimited carnival rides, 4-H animals and competitions, outdoor kids events, and weekend Classic Car Show. Pre-fair fun with Carnival ONLY on Wednesday, July 13 from 3 to 11pm. Free admission to fairgrounds; $25.00 unlimited carnival rides (Fantasy Amusements). There’s always something new at the Kane County Fair. The cute racing pigs are back.…

With the advent of instantaneous, ubiquitous, global mass communication, the world seems to have gotten much smaller yet much more incomprehensible. Because we can find out what’s going on anywhere in the world, at any time, from a myriad of online sources, and because, for whatever reason, bad news draws our attention (“if it bleeds, it leads” is not a myth), it can seem like we’re all on the brink of disaster 24/7/365. (And let’s face it, there are a lot of people and institutions whose very existence relies on us maintaining a constant state of near-panic.) But, occasionally, it’s…