WWE wrestling to release Elgin-made faith film
It sounds like a case of strange bedfellows. Or, one might proclaim, a potential mismatch. The faith-based feature film shot in the Elgin area this spring by a branch of...
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Courier-News played important role in reconciling races in Elgin
Telling their memories of the 1960s-1970s civil rights turmoil, three longtime Elginites said The Courier-News and former Managing Editor L.S. Clemens played an important role in reconciling the races in...
Child care center opens under shadow of state subsidy changes
The new Jerri Hoffmann Child + Family Center opened Monday in Carpentersville, but Illinois' budget battle left some wondering whether it will be able to serve the additional low-income working...
Carpentersville child care center named for Winnetka philanthropist
The woman with her name on the marquee in front of the new Jerri Hoffmann Child + Family Center in Carpentersville recalled Monday that when she and future husband David...
Courier-News columnist ‘remembered when’ Elgin life was very different
Remember when life in the Elgin area was very different, but not necessarily any better than it is today? That was the theme of a nostalgia column written by Charles...
‘Fox’ movie still in the works despite funding disappointment
The director of a documentary movie about the environmental vigilante known as the Fox says he'll finish the film even though a Kickstarter fundraising campaign for it came up short....
Washington D.C. wants to know how U46 improved student behavior
Elgin School District U46 has gone so far in improving the behavior of its students without imposing drastic punishments that the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice apparently want to...
New low-cost child care center to open in Carpentersville
The kids using Carpentersville's new low-cost day care and early education center may still be Tom Thumb-sized. But not much else will be tiny about the big new center being...
Unanswered questions linger over Elgin U46 school boundary plan
As Elgin School District U46 prepares public meetings to explain proposed new boundaries for nearly half of its 40 elementary schools, unanswered questions remain over class sizes, test scores and...
U46 OKs preschool space
This fall there will be room for 200 more 4-year-old full-time preschool students from low-income in Elgin School District U46. And half of them will be housed in vacant space...