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All candidates for Aurora City Council Ward V complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Both of the candidates running in the Nov. 7, 2023, general election for Aurora City Council Ward V — Incumbent Angela Lawson (nonpartisan) and Chris Rhodes (nonpartisan) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office.

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Country Club Hills jumps into Bears stadium blitz

The south suburb joins Naperville, Waukegan, Aurora and Richton Park in courting the team, which has hit an impasse in property tax negotiations in Arlington Heights.

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Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey: Colorado roundup

Colorado is holding elections, including for school boards and city council, on Nov. 7, 2023. A number of candidates running in these elections completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office.

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A deadly walk home, five charged and three convicted: What happened to Elijah McClain?

Described by one friend as ‘the sweetest, purest person I have ever met’, Elijah McClain lost his life after encountering three police officers and two paramedics while walking home. Kelly Rissman reports

The Independent UK

Elijah McClain: Colorado police officer found guilty over death of man put in neck hold and given ketamine

Elijah McCain was stopped and restrained by police as he walked home from a convenience shop in Aurora, Colorado

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The music and animal-loving Black 23-year-old killed by police and paramedics: What happened to Elijah McClain

The Independent UK

Elijah McClain verdict: One police officer guilty and one acquitted in homicide trial

Killing of 23-year-old in Aurora, Colorado highlighted the issue of police violence against Black Americans

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Elijah McClain: one Colorado officer convicted and one acquitted in 2019 killing

The 23-year-old Black man was stopped as he was walking home from a store, placed in a neck hold and injected with ketamine

The Guardian - US

The music and animal-loving Black 23-year-old killed by police and paramedics: What happened to Elijah McClain

The Independent UK

Verdict looms in trial of two officers over Elijah McClain’s death

Aurora Police officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt are charged over 2019 death of Elijah McClain

The Independent UK

Aurora man charged in connection with Willowbrook Juneteenth celebration shooting that killed 1, injured 22

Anthony Mothershed, 19, was charged in DuPage County on Friday with aggravated discharge of a firearm and one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

Chicago Sun-Times

These 3 Rare Pre-War Motorcycles Are About To Go Up For Grabs

Two early British and one early American bike are about to find new homes at the 2023 Hershey auction in Pennsylvania in October 2023. All are extremely rare.

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West Chicago’s Latino residents say they don’t want trash from Naperville, Wheaton and other white communities

Garbage brawl is called ‘textbook’ environmental racism.

Chicago Sun-Times

The music and animal-loving Black 23-year-old killed by police and paramedics: What happened to Elijah McClain

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Trial begins in Elijah McClain death, which sparked outrage over racial injustice in policing

Four years after Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in Colorado, two of the police officers charged in his death are set to go on trial

Chicago Sun-Times

Libraries in Chicago, suburbs receive bomb threats

Libraries in Chicago, Aurora, Addison and Evanston are targeted by threats. The incidents were investigated and deemed unfounded. No one was hurt.

The Independent UK

No charges filed in shooting death of 14-year-old who told police: ‘Stop please, you got me’

Jor’Dell, 14, was shot and killed on 1 June in Aurora, Colorado following a convenience store robbery when responding officers believed he was armed with a 9mm pistol

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago-area Christkindlmarkets to open Nov. 17 with new ‘fast-entry’ ticketing available

The beloved holiday shopping markets will return to Daley Plaza, Gallagher Way and to Aurora’s RiverEdge Park.

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Mexican cartel crew leader from Aurora tried but couldn’t get out. Now, Pablo Vega Cuevas is hoping for leniency for helping feds.

He’s seeking a reduced sentence of 15 years for his role in Guerreros Unidos. In 2014, he asked the drug cartel to let him leave, but his bosses told him to keep unloading heroin hidden on buses, prosecutors say.

Chicago Sun-Times

They were 2 Chicago pizza delivery guys. Then, they ran a Mexican drug cartel, feds say

The Guerreros Unidos cartel that authorities say brothers Adan and Mario Casarrubias Salgado led fed Chicago’s appetite for heroin and is blamed for the massacre of 43 students in Mexico.

The Independent UK

Another harrowing escape puts attention on open prostitution market along Seattle's Aurora Avenue

The kidnapping of a woman who authorities say escaped her abductor by punching her way out of a cinder block cell in Oregon has focused attention on the area where authorities say she was taken: Aurora Avenue in Seattle, an urban stretch of state highway lined with box stores and…

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Immigrants at Colo. detention center face excessive solitary confinement, advocacy groups allege

DENVER -- Immigration advocacy groups allege abuse of solitary confinement and discrimination against people with disabilities at the Aurora, Colorado, immigration detention center in a complaint submitted Thursday to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s oversight entities.

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A 'double punch' of solar storms could smash into Earth and spark widespread auroras this week

As the U.S. celebrated July 4, the sun hosted its own fireworks display in the form of a coronal mass ejection "double punch" that NASA predicts could strike Earth on Friday (July 7).

Chicago Sun-Times

Field of Bears suitors grows to five: Aurora joins rush to lure team with new stadium

With the team’s Arlington Heights proposal in flux, an Aurora spokesman said Bears representatives “responded quickly and positively” to their entreaty, which follows others from Naperville and Waukegan.

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Five recent mayoral elections in America’s largest cities have been decided by fewer than 1,000 votes

As Ballotpedia prepares for August’s mayoral elections, we wanted to pause and take a look at some trends we’ve noticed across the top 100 largest cities by population. Analyzing each city’s most recent mayoral election results, ranging from 2019 to 2023, we found that the top five competitive general elections…

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