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Chicago Tribune
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Fishing clinics to be held at Oakhurst Forest Preserve in Aurora
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources Urban and Community Fishing Program will stage fishing clinics at Lake Patterson at Oakhurst Forest Preserve at 1680 Fifth Ave. in Aurora this summer. The fishing clinics will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 10; Tuesday, Aug. 5; and Wednesday, Sept. 3. Instructors will teach participants basic angling skills including casting, knot-tying and fish identification, while demonstrating ethical angling practices, according to a press release from the Kane County Forest Preserve District. Participants can bring their own fishing equipment or borrow tackle and rods while supplies last, according to the release. Illinois fishing regulations and site-specific rules will apply, organizers said. For more information on the clinics, go to or find the Kane County Forest Preserve District on social media by searching @forestpreserve. The Edith Farnsworth House at 14520 River Road in Plano will hold a summer event called Live Beats and Breezy Bites on Saturday, July 26. The event will feature an afternoon of live jazz, culinary offerings and art in nature, organizers said. There will be a performance by guitarist Hans Luchs, an Aurora native now based in New York City, alongside a jazz quartet. Guests can enjoy tacos and beverages from local vendor Two Partners Cafe, as well as have access to the Edith Farnsworth House itself and also Movement: Water Into Wood – The Art of Truman Lowe exhibition before the concert. Check-in for the event will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., with the jazz concert at 4 p.m. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and picnic blankets to the event. For tickets, go to The Waterman Lions Club will hold its 25th anniversary Summerfest and Antique Tractor and Truck Show on Saturday, July 19, at Waterman Lions Park on South Birch Street in Waterman. The event will begin at 7:30 a.m. with a breakfast hosted by Shabbona Community Church and then during the day feature kids shows and activities, live musical performances, food, a beer garden, craft and flea markets, antique farm exhibits, a tractor pull and ending with a fireworks display at 9:15 p.m. For more information, go to Tickets are on sale for Naper Settlement's Naper Nights concert featuring the soul-funk group WAR. WAR will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its multiplatinum album, 'Why Can't We Be Friends,' from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. in Naperville. Tickets are $40 for adults and $15 for children ages 4 to 12. WAR's hits include 'Why Can't We Be Friends,' 'Low Rider,' and 'The Cisco Kid.' Chairs are not provided so guests should bring lawn chairs or blankets. School of Rock takes the stage first at 5 p.m. followed by Rico!, a Santana tribute band that will perform from 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, go to The Pathway to Adventure Council, Scouting America, will hold a fundraiser this fall at the White Eagle Golf Club, 3400 Club Drive, in Naperville. Online registration is now available for the nonprofit's annual Golf Classic to be held Monday, Oct. 6. The event starts at 9 a.m. with breakfast and time at the driving range. Golfing begins at 11 a.m. with a shotgun start in a scramble format, organizers said. Food, drinks and a raffle will culminate the event. Proceeds support Scout programs that serve more than 13,600 children in kindergarten through high school across the Chicago and northwest Indiana regions, organizers said. The Golf Classic is open to golfers of all skill levels, organizers said. Sponsorships are available. For more information, go to
Chicago Tribune
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Naperville News Digest: Will County reports first mosquitoes with West Nile virus; tickets available for Naper Nights concert featuring WAR
The Will County Health Department has announced that mosquitoes collected in Joliet have tested positive for West Nile virus. No human cases of the virus have been reported in Will this year, and this is the first batch of mosquitoes to have tested positive in the county, a health department news release said. West Nile virus has been found in 22 counties throughout Illinois this year, and one human case was reported in southern Illinois. West Nile virus typically causes mild, flu-like symptoms, though about 80% of people who are infected do not develop any symptoms, the release said. About 20% of those infected will develop a fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea or rash. About 1 in 150 people who are infected develop a serious illness that affects the central nervous system, such as inflammation of the brain or inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord, the release said. County health officials urge residents to be cautious when outdoors and protect themselves from mosquito-borne diseases. Tickets are on sale for Naper Settlement's Naper Nights concert featuring the soul-funk group WAR. WAR will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their multiplatinum album, 'Why Can't We Be Friends,' from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. in Naperville. Tickets are $40 for adults and $15 for children ages 4 to 12. WAR's hits include 'Why Can't We Be Friends,' 'Low Rider,' and 'The Cisco Kid.' Chairs are not provided so guests should bring lawn chairs or blankets. School of Rock takes the stage first at 5 p.m. followed by Rico!, a Santana tribute band who will perform from 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, go to
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
The Way We Were: Naperville loves a parade — true now, and true 108 years ago
As anyone who has lived in Naperville for any length of time knows, Naperville loves a parade. In fact, there's a downtown mural dedicated to that very idea. This photo captures a scene from the Naperville Home Coming parade held in June 1917. According to Naper Settlement, the four-day event was organized to salute the town's accomplishments since its incorporation 60 years earlier. Alas, as the Settlement noted in an online account, it ended up being a bittersweet gathering as it also 'served as a farewell to those young men going off' to fight in World War I, which the United States had entered just two months earlier.
Chicago Tribune
13-06-2025
- General
- Chicago Tribune
The Way We Were: Naperville loves a parade — true now, and true 108 years ago
As anyone who has lived in Naperville for any length of time knows, Naperville loves a parade. In fact, there's a downtown mural dedicated to that very idea. This photo captures a scene from the Naperville Home Coming parade held in June 1917. According to Naper Settlement, the four-day event was organized to salute the town's accomplishments since its incorporation 60 years earlier. Alas, as the Settlement noted in an online account, it ended up being a bittersweet gathering as it also 'served as a farewell to those young men going off' to fight in World War I, which the United States had entered just two months earlier.
Chicago Tribune
06-05-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Rise of Kroehler Manufacturing Co. through innovative marketing explored in new Naper Settlement exhibit
Kroehler Manufacturing Co. was once a household name. Naper Settlement's newest exhibit explores just how the Naperville business marketed itself to eventually become at one time the world's largest furniture producer. 'Selling Kroehler' details the advertising strategies the company employed amid a changing consumer culture during the 20th century. The origins of Kroehler Manufacturing Co. date back more than 130 years ago, growing out of an entity called the Naperville Lounge Factory that was founded in 1893. The company name was later updated to reflect the ownership of longtime President Peter Kroehler, who was instrumental in building it into a nationally known business. At its peak, Kroehler had about 8,000 employees. Between the 1940s and 1960s, annual sales climbed from $20 million to more than $100 million before its demise in 1981. Because of the company's local roots, Naper Settlement has collected a large assortment of Kroehler materials, according to Jeanne Schultz Angel, the history museum's associate vice president of humanities. A couple of years ago it was decided they would use them to curate an exhibit and they began thinking about what kind of story they wanted to tell, Schultz Angel said. As chief curator Christine McNulty and curator of history Andrea Field looked at materials on hand, there 'was a story that was sort of bubbling up wanting to be told and that was the story of marketing,' Schultz Angel said. 'Of how innovative Peter Kroehler and the company were in marketing their furniture.' From there, the story evolved into how Kroehler's strategies related to broader American history and consumer habits at the time, she said. In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant, according to an overview of the rise of industrial America from the Library of Congress. Following World War II, a post-war economic boom brought about higher wages that in turn fueled a new consumer culture, per a 2022 article from the National World War II Museum. 'That's what we found really, really interesting. … In the midst of all of this, we have our example of Kroehler Manufacturing,' Schultz Angel said. The exhibit, stretching across three rooms in the Pre-Emption House buiding, is a compilation of advertising materials, descriptive text, interactive elements and of course, furniture displays. One part highlights classroom kits that Kroehler's 'Consumer Education Department' sold to schools to make furniture buying part of home economic courses. Another looks at how Kroehler conducted a motivational survey on furniture buying to better understand consumer behavior. Asked what she hopes visitors take away from the exhibit, Schultz Angel said, 'For marketing and consumer culture, how we purchase things today … the world is sort of the manufacturer now, not just localized areas, right? And I think as much as (habits) change, there's still these things that we remind ourselves of.' 'Selling Kroehler' will be on view through December.
