1993: The City of Yorkville officials approved the start of a curbside recycling program through the city refuse hauler. Bins will be distributed to every home.

A native to Mexico, the English-known Poinsettia was known to the Nahuatl and Aztecs as Cuetlaxóchitl, meaning “a flower that withers.”

Many of the Fox Valley fields that just a few years ago grew corn and soybeans are now sprouting homes, stores and schools. Once-quiet rural lanes are now heavily traveled arterial highways, and it’s possible to walk along the sidewalk downtown and never meet a person you know.