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Driving on Route 25 in either direction just south of East State Street in Geneva, it’s easy to miss. But if one looks closer, one discovers an understated but deeply moving memorial to Caitlin Gallagher, the 17-year-old Geneva High School junior who lost her life Tuesday morning on the train tracks just beneath the underpass now adorned with messages of hope and sorrow, and mementos to a life cut short. On Tuesday, Geneva Police and Fire Department personnel were dispatched to the scene around 6:20 a.m. for a train accident involving a pedestrian. Upon arrival, emergency responders located the victim,…

Buildings at the Pheasant Run property on the east side of St. Charles are on fire. Videos show a large blaze just adjacent to the main building. Firefighters as well as St. Charles police are on the scene. We have no further information at this time. We will update as information becomes available.

Tri-Cities police departments have announced that they will be combining efforts this upcoming holiday week in an effort to reduce crashes and enhance roadway safety through enhanced enforcement. The Geneva, Batavia, and St. Charles Police departments are joining forces to conduct additional selected location patrols during the week of Memorial Day. Beginning on Monday, May 23, through Monday, May 30, police will focus their enforcement efforts on heavily traveled roadways (Randall Road, Route 31, Route 25, and Kirk Road). The departments will be focusing their efforts on educating motorists and enforcing traffic laws as they relate to speed, distracted driving,…

A gofundme campaign has been started to help the family with funeral and medical expense The Kane County Coroner’s office has identified the person struck and killed by a Metra train in Geneva Tuesday morning. According to a press release, the victim was 17-year-old Caitlin Gallagher, a junior at Geneva High School. The manner of death is still under investigation. A gofundme campaign has been started to raise funds for Ms. Gallagher’s funeral and medical expenses. An autopsy was performed on Wednesday and toxicology samples were collected at the time of the autopsy and sent to a forensic laboratory. The…

(Welcome to the latest edition of a new weekly feature for Fox Valley Magazine, Jeff’s Sports Bets. Local punter Jeff gives his methodology and picks each Friday for MLB games If you’re unfamiliar with betting, check out the introductory article, where Jeff begins by defining terms and discussing his process. Enjoy!) Jeff’s Bets – Friday May 20, 2022 Well, we certainly did better than we did the week before, so let’s review the results: Reds (Mahle) mline vs. Pirates (H) (M. Keller) – Over 8 Reds 8 – Pirates 2 = $81.81 Our statistical analysis worked well on this one and Tyler Mahle did,…

Welcome to our latest edition of Fox Valley Magazine’s 4 FOR THE WEEKEND where nature abhors a vacuum, but is otherwise agnostic on cleaning equipment. So let’s get to it, starting with….. What’s This? A “Nice” Comedian? We thought those were outlawed? And yet, here he is. Now, we admit we’d never heard of Michael Palascak until we came across him prepping for this enewsletter. Nice comedians are about as rare as caviar at a Grateful Dead concert. (OK, we were going to make a reference to hygiene there, but we’ve got enough enemies.) Anyway, check this guy out. There’s…

If you’re into Pink Floyd, this is your weekend. Two different venues will be presenting different Pink Floyd tributes on two different days. Friday, May 20 – The Gilmour Project at The Arcada The Gilmour Project was poised and ready to launch in April 2020, then the world hit the pause button. They re-emerged in 2021 pivoting to David Gilmour’s Pink Floyd repertoire. The songs that compel exploration & improvisation are mainly Gilmour’s and this rendition certainly does not dismiss the iconic contributions of all 5 historic musicians that comprise the Pink Floyd complement. The Gilmour Project incorporates musicians whose background is both…

Michael Palascak is a comedian who grew up in Indiana and now lives in LA. He performed on both The Late Late Show with James Corden and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the same year. He has over 1 million views on YouTube. In addition, his resume includes A Little Late with Lilly Singh, The Tonight Show, Letterman, Craig Ferguson, Conan, has a Comedy Central Half Hour special, and was a Top 5 Finalist on Last Comic Standing where one judge claimed, “My first impression of Michael was a great likability. This is a guy that could star…

Andrew Grams returns to guest conduct the Elgin Symphony Orchestra in its performance of Korsakov’s epic Scheherazade, op.35. Scheherazade musically tells the tale of the beautiful young storyteller who, in order to dissuade her jealous Sultan from marrying, and then killing, a new wife every day in revenge for infidelity by one of his wives, marries him herself and then regales the ruler with captivating tales for 1001 nights, his fascination with her stories preventing him from killing her until he finally relents. Based on the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights, this…

A 49-year-old DuPage County man is in custody and facing multiple child pornography charges as a result of an investigation by the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office Digital Forensic Investigation Unit and DuPage County prosecutors. The suspect, who lives in unincorporated DuPage County near Darien, is being held on $150,000 bond following a bond hearing Wednesday. Sheriff’s Office investigators executed a search warrant at the suspect’s residence on Wednesday, following an internet investigation into the possession and distribution of child pornography files. A forensic examination of his digital electronics revealed the presence of child pornography files. “I’m so thankful that we…