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Aurora is the second-largest city in the state of , located about 35 miles west of . It's at the very edge of and, situated on the Fox River, has many opportunities for urban, suburban, and rural recreation.
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  • Type: City with 181,000 residents
  • Description: city on tripoints of DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will Counties in Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Aurora, IL” and “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Postal codes: 60505-60507 and 60568

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aurora Regional Fire Museum and Aurora Transportation Center.

Museum
The is an educational institution located in Aurora, Illinois, US. Its purpose is to preserve and exhibit the artifacts and history of fire departments in Aurora and the surrounding area, as well as to teach and promote fire safety and prevention.

Railway station
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The is a station on 's BNSF Line in Aurora, Illinois. The station is 37.1 miles from , the east end of the line.

Islet
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is a small island in the Fox River in Aurora, Illinois. In 1986 the island and its 41 buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Historic District. It covers 0.03 square miles of land area.

Aurora

Latitude
41.7572° or 41° 45′ 26″ north
Longitude
-88.3148° or 88° 18′ 53″ west
Population
181,000
Elevation
679 feet (207 metres)
IATA airport code
AUZ
United Nations Location Code
US AUZ
Open location code
86HHQM4P+V3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153812116
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4883817
Wiki­data ID
Q22595
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aurora” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aurora”
  • Arabic: “أورورا، إلينوي”
  • Arabic: “أورورا”
  • Aragonese: “Aurora”
  • Armenian: “Օրորա”
  • Arpitan: “Aurora”
  • Asturian: “Aurora”
  • Basque: “Aurora”
  • Bavarian: “Aurora”
  • Belarusian: “Арора”
  • Bengali: “অরোরা”
  • Breton: “Aurora”
  • Bulgarian: “Аурора”
  • Catalan: “Aurora”
  • Cebuano: “Aurora”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاورۆرا”
  • Chechen: “Аурора”
  • Chinese: “Aurora”
  • Chinese: “奥罗拉”
  • Chinese: “奧羅拉”
  • Cornish: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Cornish: “Aurora”
  • Corsican: “Aurora”
  • Croatian: “Aurora”
  • Czech: “Aurora”
  • Danish: “Aurora”
  • Dutch: “Aurora”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اورورا”
  • Esperanto: “Aurora”
  • Estonian: “Aurora”
  • Faroese: “Aurora”
  • Finnish: “Aurora”
  • French: “Aurora”
  • Friulian: “Aurora”
  • Galician: “Aurora”
  • Georgian: “ორორა”
  • German: “Aurora”
  • Gilaki: “آرؤرا”
  • Greek: “Ορόρα”
  • Greek: “Ωρόρα”
  • Gujarati: “ઓરોરા”
  • Haitian: “Aurora, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Aurora”
  • Hebrew: “אורורה”
  • Hindi: “अरोड़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Aurora”
  • Icelandic: “Aurora”
  • Ido: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Ido: “Aurora”
  • Indonesian: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Interlingua: “Aurora”
  • Interlingue: “Aurora”
  • Irish: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Irish: “Aurora”
  • Italian: “Aurora”
  • Japanese: “オーロラ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Aurora”
  • Kannada: “ಅರೋರಾ”
  • Kongo: “Aurora”
  • Korean: “아로라”
  • Korean: “오로라”
  • Ladin: “Aurora”
  • Latvian: “Aurora”
  • Latvian: “Orora”
  • Ligurian: “Aurora”
  • Limburgan: “Aurora”
  • Lithuanian: “Aurora”
  • Low German: “Aurora”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aurora”
  • Malagasy: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Malagasy: “Aurora”
  • Malay: “Aurora”
  • Marathi: “औरोरा”
  • Mazanderani: “آرورا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aurora”
  • Minangkabau: “Aurora”
  • Narom: “Aurora”
  • Neapolitan: “Aurora”
  • Newari: “औरोरा (इलियोनोई)”
  • Newari: “औरोरा, इलियोनोई”
  • Northern Luri: “آرورا، ئیلینوی”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aurora”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aurora i Illinois”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aurora”
  • Norwegian: “Aurora”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aurora”
  • Persian: “آرورا، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “آرورا”
  • Picard: “Aurora”
  • Piemontese: “Aurora”
  • Polish: “Aurora”
  • Portuguese: “Aurora”
  • Romanian: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Romanian: “Aurora”
  • Romansh: “Aurora”
  • Russian: “Аврора”
  • Russian: “Орора”
  • Samogitian: “Aurora”
  • Sardinian: “Aurora”
  • Scots: “Aurora”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aurora”
  • Serbian: “Aurora”
  • Serbian: “Орора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aurora”
  • Sicilian: “Aurora”
  • Silesian: “Aurora”
  • Sinhala: “අවුරෝරා”
  • Slovak: “Aurora”
  • Slovenian: “Aurora”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آرورا، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Aurora (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Aurora”
  • Swahili: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Swahili: “Aurora”
  • Swedish: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Aurora”
  • Swiss German: “Aurora”
  • Tagalog: “Aurora”
  • Tahitian: “Aurora”
  • Talysh: “Orora”
  • Tamil: “அரோரா”
  • Tatar: “Орора (Иллинойс)”
  • Tatar: “Орора”
  • Telugu: “అరోరా”
  • Thai: “ออโรร่า”
  • Turkish: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Aurora”
  • Ukrainian: “Аурора”
  • Ukrainian: “Орора”
  • Urdu: “آرورا، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “آرورا”
  • Venetian: “Aurora”
  • Vietnamese: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Aurora”
  • Vlaams: “Aurora”
  • Volapük: “Aurora”
  • Walloon: “Aurora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aurora”
  • Welsh: “Aurora, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Aurora”
  • Western Panjabi: “ارورا”
  • Wolof: “Aurora”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥罗拉（伊利诺伊州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥罗拉”
  • Zulu: “Aurora”
  • “Aurora”

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