AURORA, Ill. (CBS) — Cole Bennett of Lyrical Lemonade will be among those attending and speaking the City of Lights Film Festival in Aurora coming up next weekend.
It may be Paris that’s known around the world as La Ville Lumière, or the City of Light—some say this is because of its role as an intellectual and philosophical hub during the Age of Enlightenment, while others say it’s because of the early adoption of streetlights in the French capital.
But as many sources are quick to point out, Paris is the City of Light, not the City of Lights. The City of Lights is Aurora, Illinois, which was one of the first cities in the U.S. to light its streets with electricity in 1881…