YMCA

The Greater Joliet YMCA recognized Bill Lauer’s 80 years of YMCA membership and more than 60 years of board service at its gala on Feb. 24.

The Dixon Dolphins swim team had 14 swimmers compete in the Illinois YMCA State Championship on March 9 and 10.

The Joliet Regional Port District will receive $1,552,500 for the growing pilot flight training schools at Lewis University Airport.

The Dixon Dolphins YMCA swim team will be sending 14 swimmers to compete in the state championship next weekend.

Conversations are ongoing between the YMCA Board of Directors, its leadership team, and the village of Shorewood to build a new center in the village, according to Katy Leclair, president and CEO of the Greater Joliet Area YMCA.

Along with the visit from Santa, children also got to enjoy crafts, Christmas cookies and lemonade.

Santa puts his busy schedule on hold to make a visit to swimmers Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023 at the Dixon YMCA. Along with the visit from Santa, kids also got to enjoy, crafts, Christmas cookies and lemonade.

It was a day of celebration in Dixon on Monday, as local officials gathered in the Dixon Gateway Development area to break ground for the Dixon YMCA’s new 15,000-square-foot Lovett Child Development Center.

The 15,000-square-foot Dixon YMCA Lovett Child Development Center broke ground Monday, Nov. 27, 2023 at the Gateway Project property in Dixon. The center is expected to be complete in June of 2024.

Check out how the new YMCA building looks a year after construction began. Work on the $25.7 million, 67,000-square-foot riverfront YMCA is expected to be completed in late spring.

Dixon Starbucks store manager Ainsley Ports and Starbucks Sauk Valley assistant store manager Lisa Sandrock awarded the grant on Friday to Dixon YMCA CEO Andy McFarlane and Heather Grobe, youth and child development director at the YMCA.

Workers continue to progress on the exterior of the YMCA building on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023 in Ottawa. The new $25.7 million facility is expected to be completed in the spring of 2024.

The Kishwaukee Family YMCA recently received $3,700 from the Women Supporting Faith Based Organizations (WSFBO).

After 17 years in the works, officials from all the organizations responsible for the new Morris Hospital YMCA met to break ground at 2200 Dupont Ave. in Morris.

CEO Andrew McFarlane announced Thursday, April 6, 2023 the Dixon YMCA will build a 16,000 square foot child care facility at the Gateway Project grounds.