Aurora Delivery Information
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About Aurora Illinois, IL
Aurora is a city predominantly in Kane County and DuPage County, with portions extending into Kendall and Will counties. It is in the outer region of Chicago metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the second most populous city in the state, and the 114th most populous city in the country. Once a mid-sized manufacturing city, Aurora has grown tremendously since the 1960s. Founded within Kane County, Aurora’s city limits and population have expanded into DuPage, Will, and Kendall counties. Between 2000 and 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Aurora as the 34th fastest growing city in the United States. The Aurora area is home to an impressive collection of architecture, including structures by Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Bruce Goff and George Grant Elmslie. The Hollywood Casino Aurora, a dockside gaming facility with 53,000 square feet (4,900 m2) and 1,200 gaming positions, is on the river in downtown Aurora. Aurora is also home to a large collection of Sears Catalog Homes over 50 homes and Lustron all-steel homes seven homes in all. The city was a manufacturing powerhouse until the early 1970s, when the railroad shops closed. Soon many other factories and industrial areas relocated or went out of business. By 1980, there were few industrial areas operating in the city, and unemployment soared to 16%.[11] During the late 1970s and early 1980s, development of the Far East side along the Eola Road and Route 59 areas began. While this was financially beneficial to the city, it also contributed to the decline of the downtown and the manufacturing sectors on the near East and West Sides. Crime rates soared and street gangs started to form in the mid-1980s. It was during this time Aurora became a much more culturally diverse city. The Latino population started to grow rapidly in the city in the 1980s. In the late 1980s, several business and industrial parks were established on the city’s outskirts. In 1993, the Hollywood Casino was built downtown, which helped bring the first redevelopment to the downtown area in nearly twenty years. In the late 1990s, more development began in the rural areas and towns outside Aurora. Subdivisions sprouted up around the city, and Aurora’s population soared. Aurora is on the edge of the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor. The city has a long tradition of manufacturing as does much of Chicago metropolitan area. Prominent manufacturers, past and present include Lyon Workspace Products, The Aurora Silverplate Manufacturing Company, Barber-Greene Company, the Chicago Corset Company, the Aurora Brewing Company, Stephens-Adamson Company, Caterpillar Inc., Allsteel Metals, National Metalwares, and Western Wheeled Scraper Works (later Austin-Western Inc.). The most prominent employer and industry was the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad (later Burlington Northern) which was headquartered in Aurora. The CB&Q Roundhouse is still standing, and is now the popular restaurant originally called Walter Payton’s Roundhouse; after the Payton estate ended its involvement in 2009 it became known as America’s Historic Roundhouse, and after a 2011 change in ownership, it is now known as Two Brothers Roundhouse. Downtown Aurora is home to the Paramount Theatre, a large live performance theater on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Hollywood Casino. There is also the Leland Tower, a former hotel which was the tallest building in Illinois outside of Chicago and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The largest collection of commercial buildings by Prairie School architect George Grant Elmslie is here as is the main building of Aurora Public Library and a branch campus of Waubonsee Community College.
If you are sending a gift basket to a teacher or student keep in mind that the end of a typical school day is around 3:pm so please keep this in mind when sending gift baskets to a school and remember to place your order early.
Send a get well gift basket to a patient staying at any health care facility located in Aurora to cheer them up with some healthy fruit and bright balloons.
Aurora Resources
Aurora Florists Shops and Gift Basket Designers
Aurora Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Convalescent Hospitals
We deliver daily to all Aurora hospitals, cemeteries, nursing homes, schools, mortuaries, and funeral homes for funerals, memorial services and celebration of life ceremonies. We also deliver to all local businesses, hotels and convention centers in and surrounding Aurora.
Cities Near Aurora: North Aurora, Oswego, Batavia, Warrenville, Geneva, Naperville, West Chicago, Saint Charles, Winfield, Plainfield, Lisle, Wheaton, Bolingbrook, Woodridge, Carol Stream, IL.
Zip codes in Aurora:
60502, 60503, 60504, 60505, 60506, 60507, 60538, 60542, 60563, 60564, 60568, 60569, 60585, 60598, 60599.
Our Aurora Gift Basket Company and flower shop local florist offers the world’s largest selection of handcrafted gift baskets and flower for same day delivery in Aurora or shipping nationwide.
We deliver flowers and balloons daily to all hospitals, veterans hospitals, funeral homes, cemeteries, mortuaries, nursing homes and convalescent hospitals in Aurora including:
Presence Mercy Medical Center, 1325 N Highland Ave, Aurora, IL 60506 (630) 859-2222
Rush-Copley Heart Institute, 2088 Ogden Ave, Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 978-6200
The Daleiden Mortuary, 220 N Lake St, Aurora, IL 60506 (630) 631-5500
The Healy Chapel Funeral & Cremation Services, 370 Division Dr. Sugar Grove, Illinois 60554 630-466-1330
Alden Horizon Independent Senior Living Community, 2000 Randi Dr, Aurora, IL 60504 (630) 499-1890
Presence Fox Knoll, 421 N Lake St, Aurora, IL 60506 (630) 844-0380
Waubonsee Community College, 18 S. River St. Aurora, IL 60506-4134 (630) 801-7900
Our Aurora Gift Basket Company and flower shop local florist offers the world’s largest selection of handcrafted gift baskets and flower for same day delivery in Aurora or shipping nationwide.
We deliver to all Hospitals in Aurora including:
Copley Memorial Hospital, Rush-Copley Medical Center, Presence Mercy Medical Center, Abandoned Copley Hospital, Aurora Veterans Outpatient Clinic, Presence Health, Rush Copley Heart and Vascular Institute, Old Aurora City Hospital At Old Copley Hospital, Advocate Medical Group Outpatient Center, Neurosurgery Aurora, Fresenius Medical Care at Provena Mercy Center For Health, Associated Pediatrics of Fox Valley, Kaiser Permanente, Edward Hospital, Advocate Medical Group Outpatient Center, Advocate Children’s Medical Group Complex Pediatric Care Clinic, Aurora Medical Center, Pulmonary Medicine Aurora Highland.
We deliver to all Cemeteries, Mortuaries and Funeral Homes in Aurora including:
The Daleiden Mortuary, Healy Chapel, James Funeral Services, Dieterle Memorial Home & Cremation Ceremonies, Healy Chapel, Beidelman-Kunsch Funeral Homes & Crematory, Dunn Family Funeral Home With Crematory, Riverside Cemetery, Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home, Moss Family Funeral Home, Cremation Society of Illinois, Beidelman-Kunsch Funeral Homes & Crematory, Overman Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services.
We deliver to all schools and colleges in Aurora including:
Waubonsee Community College – Aurora Downtown Campus, Waubonsee Community College – Aurora Fox Valley Campus, St. Augustine College, Waubonsee Community College, America Business College – Aurora Campus, Rasmussen College-Aurora/Naperville, Metropolitan Business College, Robert Morris College: Culinary Arts, Aurora University, Aurora Sodexho University, College of DuPage Naperville Center, Institute for Collaboration, Waubonsee Community College – Plano Campus, North Central College, Citywide CPR Classes & Certification Naperville – Aurora, IL., Harold Washington College, AU.
