Unique Bob Dylan poster — and story that goes with it — puts Naperville resident on ‘Antiques Roadshow’

Mark Rice knew he was going to make it onto “Antiques Roadshow.”

But it wasn’t his collector’s item alone — a decades-old Bob Dylan poster signed by the artist — that made landing a segment on the PBS series feel inevitable.

When Rice left Naperville for an appraisal event for the show being held in Ohio, he carried something he knew was far more valuable than a poster.

The Way We Were: Cock Robin ice cream shop went into the history books in 2000, but its story dates back to 1931

With warm weather fast approaching, we turn our attention to one of summer’s best-loved treats: ice cream. 

Quite a bit of ice cream was once produced in Naperville and enjoyed at the Prince Castle/Cock Robin shops found here and in other area communities.

Childhood friends Walter Fredenhagen and Earl Prince formed a partnership nearly 100 years ago when they decided to try their hand at selling ice cream directly to customers rather than serving as a middleman operation selling to other shops.

Proposed referendum would let Naperville residents decide if they want ranked choice voting

On the Tuesday afternoon of Illinois’ March primary, Rebecca Williams stood outside the Naperville Municipal Center as community members strolled in and out of the building — a polling place for the day.

Between her hands, she held a clipboard. On the back, it read: “Fixing politics starts with RANKED CHOICE VOTING.”

Williams was one of several canvassers at Naperville polling places last month to gather support for a local petition drive that would allow city residents to decide if they want to switch to a ranked choice voting system.