Author: Fox Valley Magazine

Afro-Cuban band Rico will be performing a tribute to Santana this Saturday at The Venue in downtown Aurora. Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm. A band with rich sound and diversified musical cultures, Rico brings a mixture of sophisticated melodic genres together. Influenced tremendously by the sound and spirit of Santana, Rico creates a fiery, soulful sound through bass, congas, percussion, drums, timbales, keyboards, guitar, and pure passion. Rico is a conglomeration of all the great musical idioms, with a cast of talented musicians, including Ricky Rico Baker, Raymond Roque, Joe Rendon, Jesse Tobias, Jaime Claudio,…

You may not know the names, but you know the music through movies, television, radio, and commercials. Hear this “Music You Know” and love performed live with Chad Goodman and the Elgin Symphony Orchestra. From Copland and Tchaikovsky to Mendelssohn and Bizet, you will be surprised at where the music you know comes from. The ESO will perform the following pieces this Friday evening at 6:30pm at Elgin Community College Blizzard Theatre: TCHAIKOVSKY | Scène from Swan LakeBARTÓK | Romanian Folk DancesMASCAGNI | Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticanaMENDELSSOHN | Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s DreamPIAZZOLLA, arr. LONGFIELD | OblivionCOOK, arr. LAMB | Overture to In…

Three men who allegedly crashed a car into a Naperville Apple store in order to rob it last fall are in custody after Naperville Police arrested the third subject yesterday. A 30-year-old Chicago man, a 30-year-old Rockford man and a third male suspect from Maywood, who was a juvenile at the time of the incident, have each been charged with Burglary, Theft and Criminal Damage to Property, all Class 2 felonies. Early in the morning on November 6, Naperville police officers were called to the Apple store in the 100 block of West Jefferson Avenue in response to reports of…

Fox Valley Orthopedics Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is characterized by a range of uncomfortable aches and pains, such as numbness, tingling, and weakness, affecting the hands and wrists. CTS is caused by compression or pressure on the median nerve, at the wrist. CTS can be triggered by repetitive hand and wrist movements, injury, or underlying health conditions. Risk FactorsMultiple factors are linked to the development of CTS. While they may not directly lead to the condition, they can heighten the likelihood of irritation or injury to the median nerve. Symptoms of Carpal Tunnel SyndromeBelow are some of the most common…

Two adults and three juveniles have been arrested after a year-long investigation into a string of burglaries and acts of vandalism that occurred between December 2022 and April 2023 in Batavia. In March 2023, the Batavia Police Department began investigating several reports of extensive damage to area businesses and citizen property that were reported to have occurred between December 2022 and April 2023. Multiple types of property were targeted by the offenders, including currently operating businesses, vacant business property, businesses under construction, and citizen vehicles parked at private residences. The damage consisted of graffiti, slashed car tires, damage to the…

Kanecountyconnects.com St. Charles Park District’s Norris Woods Nature Preserve, heralded as one of the most outstanding oak woodlands remaining in northeastern Illinois, will soon receive another accolade: membership in the national Old Growth Forest Network (OGFN), a national organization that celebrates our oldest protected and publicly accessible forests. The public was invited to attend a special induction ceremony of the 76-acre Norris Woods Nature Preserve on Saturday, April 6. ​For more than 100 years, from 1840 to the 1970s, Norris Woods was known to local residents as Jones Woods in honor of its first owner, Stephen S. Jones–one of St. Charles’…

A 20-year-old Geneva woman has succumbed to injuries sustained when the vehicle in which she was a passenger crashed into utility pole Thursday morning. Sandra Sanchez passed yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove. According to the Kane County Sheriff’s Office, on Thursday morning at approximately 8am deputies responded to a single vehicle crash that occurred near the 42W300 block of Ke De Ka Road in Sugar Grove Township, where they found Sanchez and the driver of the vehicle and provided aid. Sanchez was transported to Mercy Hospital in Aurora by ambulance in stable but critical condition with multiple…

By now pretty much everybody knows about the total solar eclipse coming tomorrow. It is projected to be the last such eclipse in most of our lifetimes (at least us older folks), so there’s a palpable excitement building for the big event. So, in preparation, here’s what you need to know: And there you have it! All you need to know about Monday’s grand event. (And please, please, please: avoid making a joke about this…)

A 15-year-old Naperville student has been identified as one of the deceased following an avalanche in Switzerland Monday. Aleksas Beiga, a freshman at Naperville Central High School, was on spring break when he died during an April 1 avalanche near a ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland. Alexas was the son of former Lithuainian Olymipic swimmer Nerijus Beiga, and is also survived by his mother Sonata, his sister Eva, his grandmothers Marija and Birute, and his uncles Edvinas, Marius and Gediminas. A GoFundMe page has been set up for the family by a family friend, Neringa Mockus. “Aleksas was more than just…