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Aurora, Illinois
Population: 162,200
Located in DuPage County
Ask what Aurora is like and you might as well ask what Chicago is like. It really depends on which direction you are facing and what you are looking at.
Unlike its more homogeneous neighbors to the north and east, Aurora is widely divers, with everything from old factories to high-tech businesses.
Aurora's fast-growing far east side has placed Aurora neck-and-neck with neighboring Naperville for billing as Illinois' second-largest city.
As with most large cities, Aurora has several district areas, each with their own characteristics. Historically the city was considered to have an east side an a west side, divided by the Fox River. Both have an abundance of older homes.
The Paramount Arts Centre, in a refurbished Art Deco theater in downtown Aurora, brings in name acts. The active park district maintains riverside bicycle paths, and the library operates both downtown and in the Fox Valley Villages area. The city-operated Phillips Park has an old-fashioned zoo, sunken gardens and a popular new aquatic center with five pools and four water slides.
Aurora is also home to Sci-Tech, a hands-on science museum for kids; the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Illinois' only state-sponsored boarding school for gifted students, and the Hindu Shri Venkateswara Temple of Greater Chicago.
Aurora is served by three school districts, West Aurora School District 131 and Indian Prairie School District 204 on the far-east side.
There's a lot to do here. It's convenient to shopping and Metra. The park services are excellent. It's clean, it's pretty. The city takes extra special care to make the streets look like boulevards. It's a great place to live.
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