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  1. Don't panic! Banana Split will be back open tomorrow or Sunday: bit.ly/MCXkRp 12:48 PM May 25th via web from Chicago, IL
  2. Good news for impending summer heat waves -- your Aurora electricity is about to get cheaper: bit.ly/LMLo2P 8:40 AM May 25th via web from Chicago, IL
  3. BREAKING: Banana Split closed after a utility pole falls on it. Updates coming soon. (There are a lot of ice cream lovers in the newsroom.) 8:36 AM May 25th via web from Chicago, IL
  4. bit.ly/Lnn3e5 8:34 AM May 25th via web
  5. How much is your superintendent making? And where do they rank among others in the Fox Valley? bit.ly/KXG3Ar 2:00 PM May 24th via web from Chicago, IL
  6. RT @slulay2: Aurora Council approved 24-mo contract w/ First Energy for 4.71 cents/kwhr. City: avg. household will save ~$300 per year. 1:54 PM May 24th via HootSuite
  7. Cheap(er) gas: bit.ly/KHEdny 1:04 PM May 24th via web from Chicago, IL
  8. Peep! (-ing Tom.) bit.ly/Klmx2f 1:02 PM May 24th via web from Chicago, IL
  9. Teachers to Tom Cross: don't touch our pensions! bit.ly/MKvzIU 10:20 AM May 24th via web from Chicago, IL
  10. UPDATED: Erik Paxton, 24, who worked w/ kids, charged in West Side "Peeping Tom" incidents in #Aurora: ow.ly/b71gh 5:41 PM May 23rd via HootSuite
  11. BREAKING NEWS: Aurora man, 24, charged in West Side "Peeping Tom" case: More to come: ow.ly/b6GXc 12:22 PM May 23rd via HootSuite
  12. Yorkville aldermen vote to reverse previous rejection of seeking an alternative energy provider: ow.ly/b6iSY 8:45 AM May 23rd via HootSuite
  13. Aurora aldermen voted 9-2 to license tattoo shops, but not before many of the proposed rules were changed: ow.ly/b6ill 8:34 AM May 23rd via HootSuite
  14. @ea131 East Aurora plans to buy the Fred Rodgers Community Center in Aurora for $3 million: ow.ly/b6hLQ 8:29 AM May 23rd via HootSuite
  15. Aurora City Council votes 7-2 to approve amended tattoo ordinance. Doctor on call omitted & shops can finish work until 11 p.m. 6:33 PM May 22nd via HootSuite
  16. Aurora Alderman Scheketa Hart-Burns has asked to retain the Solfisburg Park neighborhood under a ward remap: ow.ly/b4KA1 (7th Ward) 9:30 AM May 22nd via HootSuite
  17. A car drove into an Oswego nail salon yesterday afternoon. Somehow, no one was hurt. bit.ly/KjqogS 6:23 AM May 22nd via web
  18. Geneva police have identified the Bolingbrook woman who was killed in a motorcycle-truck crash on Sunday. No tix yet. bit.ly/Kw4hlu 6:22 AM May 22nd via web
  19. Make sure you check out the photo gallery from this weekend's West Aurora graduation. Some fun photos! Congrats, grads! bit.ly/MDqSRg 6:22 AM May 22nd via web
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