A few hundred people came out to seven cleanup events held simultaneously from Algonquin to St. Charles for Friends of the Fox River’s inaugural It’s Our River Day, a day to help and celebrate ...

It started as a creek at Elmore Street in the city's 1889 plat map, widened at what's now Shawano Avenue, oxbow-curved through what became Seymour Park, and emptied into the Fox River with a mouth ...