Author: Fox Valley Magazine

Get ready for a summertime tradition that features cold drinks, great food, and fabulous music. Bring your lawn chair and/or blankets and find your spot on the lawn! Gate opens at 5 PM. Naper Settlement’s Naper Nights will honor legendary rock bands Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters and Green Day with tribute bands this weekend. RHCP tribute band Red NOT Chili Peppers will headline Friday’s presentation, joined by Fooz Fighters, a Foo Fighters tribute band. Saturday will include a tribute to Green Day by The American Idiots and a Weezer tribute by Weeze. It is the second of three…

The United City of Yorkville Parks and Recreation Department will present the annual Yorkville River Fest this Friday and Saturday at Riverfront Park (131E Hydraulic Ave) in Yorkville. The weekend will be full of live country music, cardboard boat races, craft beer tasting, great food, family activities, and more along the scenic Fox River. On Friday, don’t miss out on the best of live country music as local sensation Whiskey Romance Band plays a 4-hour set from 6-10pm at Riverfront Park . Grab your crew (age 10+) and captain your own hand-made cardboard boat during the Cardboard Boat Races down…

Kane County has been ranked as one of the top 20 counties in the nation in the July 2023 issue of Site Selection magazine. Kane County came in #14 on the list, along with Cook (#2), DuPage (#9) and Will (#16) Counties. Illinois was the only state with four or more contiguous counties making the list. This is Site Selection magazine’s first ranking of best counties in the U.S. and was based on the total number of economic development projects in each county between January 2022 and March 2023. Kane County had 52 qualifying projects during that time period. “This…

A Chicago man out on probation for gun charges was arrested by Naperville police and had bond set at $1 million by a DuPage County judge Friday. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Naperville Chief of Police Jason Arres issued a press release saying that bond has been set for a Chicago man accused of illegally possessing a loaded firearm. The man appeared at a bond hearing this morning where Judge Margaret O’Connell set bond at $1 million with 10% to apply. He is charged with one count of Armed Habitual Criminal (Class X Felony) and one count of…

The annual Greek Fest is being held this weekend (July 7-9) at St. Sophia in Elgin (525 Church Street, Elgin). We stopped by on opening day. Here are a few of the things we saw. (Photo credits Kevin Ketchum.)

Emagine Entertainment, a manager of luxury theatres around the US, will hold a special screening of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” at 2 p.m., July 11, as it unveils its new Super EMX Auditorium. The Super EMX auditorium is billed as the largest movie screen in Illinois, measuring over 96 feet wide and 53 feet tall (the size of an NBA court flipped on its side). The 4K laser-projected image is paired with a Dolby Atmos® immersive sound system with 70 channels of sound. The Emagine Batavia theatre, located at 550 Randall Rd. in Batavia, formerly the Randall 15 IMAX, was purchased by Emagine back in…

Welcome to our latest edition of Fox Valley Magazine’s 4 FOR THE WEEKEND where Don Quixote is non-fiction… So let’s get to it, starting with….. Jousting At Windmills Not Allowed… (Literacy test: Who got the references above?) Batavia kicks off its largest party of the year today. A party celebrating…windmills, of all things. OK, we’re just teasing. But it seems odd to us that a city that boasts the world’s second-largest particle accelerator focuses on a technological relic from the 1800s. But the party is a blast. Click here for more. Bottoms Up In Naperville The whole craft beer thing…

A Geneva man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for crashing his vehicle into two pedestrians in Aurora, killing one, while intoxicated. Nicholas Roepke, 20, appeared at his sentencing hearing Thursday morning where Judge Michael Reidy handed down the sentence. On March 16, 2023, Roepke entered a blind plea of guilty to one count of Aggravated DUI Causing Death (Class 2 Felony) and one count of Aggravated DUI Causing Great Bodily Harm (Class 4 Felony). On March 10, 2022, Roepke appeared at a bond hearing where Judge Michael Reidy set bond at $500,000 with 10% to apply. Roepke…

Two K9 units of the Kane County Sheriff’s Office tracked down an alleged car thief hiding in a corn field in Maple Park Thursday morning. The suspect was located and arrested and has been charged with Receive, Possess or Sell Stolen Motor Vehicle (one count, Class 2 Felony) and for Obstructing Identification (one county, Class A Misdemeanor). At approximately 08:38 A.M., Thursday morning, the Kane County Sheriff’s Office received a request from the Sycamore Police Department to be on the lookout for a vehicle that had fled from a traffic stop in their jurisdiction. The vehicle was described as a…

A 26-year-old Naperville Man accused of leaving the scene after fatally striking a bicyclist with his vehicle had his bond set at $500,000 during a bond hearing this morning. The accused is charged with one count of Failure to Report an Accident Involving Death, a Class 1 Felony. On July 4, at approximately 10:49 p.m., West Chicago police officers responded to a call of a hit and run involving a vehicle and a pedestrian near Joliet Street and Wilson Street. Upon their arrival, officers found the victim, forty-year-old Renato Vargas-Gutierrez, in a grassy area with his bicycle partially underneath him.…