Dan Barreiro vividly recalls what the area north of downtown Aurora along the Fox River once looked like.
It was not a pretty sight.
“As a youngster growing up in Aurora, I remember traveling down North Broadway in the ’70s and ’80s and it looks much different now,” said Barreiro, now a 1st Ward Aurora alderman. “Back then across the street there were a lot of old buildings that were demolished and the Roundhouse was barely standing.”…