by Aurora Historical Society | Oct 17, 2021 | Featured, The Aurora Shop
While we haven’t had experiences ourselves, from the book description: Aurora was the first Illinois city to have electric streetlights, but a dark history has resisted illumination as stubbornly as the chilly corner of the old roundhouse repels the summer heat....
by Aurora Historical Society | Aug 21, 2021 | Featured, New Product, The Aurora Shop
Take home a piece of vintage history in pictures to preserve — or to mail a piece of Aurora to friends near or far. This new old stock booklet of 32 unique vintage postcards celebrates Aurora’s Sesquicentennial in 1987 for just $5.00. What’s old is...
by Aurora Historical Society | May 6, 2020 | Featured, Press Release
John Jaros, Executive Director of the Aurora Historical Society receives an early copy of The Cross Man from Greg Zanis Greg Zanis, the Aurora carpenter known throughout the country as the man who traveled hundreds of thousands of miles carrying his handmade crosses...
by Aurora Historical Society | Dec 16, 2019 | Press Release
The cover of the 2020 calendar showing the “Mexican Chapel” which served the legendary boxcar camp adjacent to the Burlington Railroad’s Eola Reclamation plant. c. 1930 The Vintage Aurora Calendar for 2020, produced by the Aurora Historical...
