Some of the most exciting and entertaining sporting moments in Sun City take place on its lush acres: 12-inch and 16-inch Chicago-style softball games, special events honoring veterans, all-star games, the National Night Out celebration, skill competition, and the annual softball league playoffs in August.

Kathleen Talbot’s exuberance underscores her passion for travel. Talbot is a recently retired assistant principal; she taught for 21 years, ending her career as an assistant principal for the last 10 years.

In big cities, small towns, farming communities, neighborhoods and organizations, there are frequent criticisms and complaints by the governed that the governors and leaders aren’t transparent enough, available enough, or responsive enough.

On March 16, Huntley village officials issued the owners of the defunct mall a demolition permit to take down the buildings, most of the infrastructure, and advertising signs. All evidence of the once vibrant factory shops center will be gone no later than June 15, according to a court order.

There are 26 of them, and they are called special interest groups. They are generally small groups of residents that pursue various activities inside and outside of Sun City. Unlike Sun City’s 43 charter groups, they are not open to all residents.

These hugs are in the form of quilts from Huntley, Illinois to recipients here in Huntley and all over the world.

By early fall, the Tall Oaks Tennis Center will technically be the Sun City Tennis-Pickleball Center.

According to sports author Dave Anderson, all but one of our sports are offshoots of games developed elsewhere.

Mary Price smiles while she shares her passion with Sun City residents. She has been teaching at Sun City since 2003.

The village has about the same water infrastructure that it had back in 1999. In the past 18-plus years, Huntley’s rates have increased very little. When Sun City opened in 1999, the village’s population was less than 3,000. Today, it is about 26,700.

In 1982, Scott Hager, the second-born of June’s four children, suffered a diving accident at the age of 21. Just six years later, Scott qualified for the 1988 Summer Paralympic Games in Seoul, Korea, earning a bronze medal in the butterfly stroke. He won numerous other medals as a wheelchair athlete, mostly in swimming, at competitions all over the world, and continued to be an inspiration to many until his death at age 55 in 2016.

On February 22, more than 10 months after the mall became vacant in 2017, Huntley officials approved three actions that will allow General RV to occupy eight additional acres of the former mall property next to the I-90 tollway.

“I found out the news from my daughter. She called me and congratulated me for being selected for the Chicago 16-Inch Softball Hall of Fame (HOF) – she saw it on Facebook,” said Glenn Groebli.