The city of Aurora has agreed to give additional funding to the organization that runs the Paramount Theatre, although less than previously discussed, which is a change from a past budget proposal.

The Aurora Civic Center Authority — which owns the Paramount Theatre, the Copley Theatre, Paramount School of the Arts and North Island Center plus manages the city-owned RiverEdge Park and Stolp Island Theatre — regularly receives money from the city both though its contract to run RiverEdge Park and through a head tax paid by the Hollywood Casino in Aurora. Those payments were already included in the city’s proposed 2026 budget.

Over the past few years, the city of Aurora had also given the Civic Center Authority some of its federal pandemic-era relief funds, money that is no longer availabl

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