By Diane A. Ladley

Aurora was once the 1st Illinois urban to have electrical streetlights, yet a depressing heritage has resisted illumination as stubbornly because the cold nook of the previous roundhouse repels the summer time warmth. examine why Aurora counts "City of Cemeteries" between its nicknames as Diane Ladley, "America's Ghost Storyteller," describes the nineteenth-century health practitioner suspected of buying and selling our bodies among his melanoma middle and a neighboring graveyard. different eerie legends and weird tales published during this publication contain the marauding courageous delivered to justice within the Devil's Cave by means of his personal tribe, the candy legacy of NFL nice Walter Payton and the elephants that kept a circus from a tornado.

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