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Learn why Aurora counts "City of Cemeteries" among its nicknames as Diane Ladley

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Aurora was the first Illinois city to have electric streetlights

motto along with the year 1837 -- the year the post office was established

Haunted Aurora Drinkware Join the Aurora Historical SocietyHaunted Aurora by Diane A. Ladley 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. Learn why Aurora counts "City of Cemeteries" among its nicknames as Diane Ladley, "America's Ghost Storyteller," describes the nineteenth century doctor suspected of trading bodies between his cancer center and a neighboring