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The Elgin School District U46 Board split 4-3 and 5-2 on some curriculum and spending issues Monday.

How U46 board members voted

May 10, 2019 at 3:06 a.m.

This is a look at how the members of the School District U46 Board voted Monday on seven controversial curriculum and spending issues. All seven measures were approved. To buy...

Parent Jennifer Anderson tells the Elgin School District U46 Board Monday that she objects to teaching about Buddhist meditation in schools and worries that "under God" will be left out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Elgin U46 OKs new textbooks despite criticism that they’re too liberal

May 10, 2019 at 3:06 a.m.

A divided Elgin District U46 school board approved six new course curricula Monday despite objections from some of the newly elected board members that the content in some of books...

Administrators Libby Roeger, left, and Julie Schaid explain likely reasons why Elgin Community College has been attracting few high school students to the college's dual enrollment programs.

ECC looks to move college credit classes into high schools

May 10, 2019 at 3:06 a.m.

Teens in area school districts soon may find it easier to earn credit toward a degree or certificate from Elgin Community College even before they leave high school. Dual enrollment,...

Summer employee Megan Malone passes out chocolate milk to children attending the Summer Meals Program at Observatory Park in Elgin on Monday.

During summer in Elgin, there is a free lunch after all

May 10, 2019 at 3:06 a.m.

Dozens of children who attend Elgin-area U46 schools are getting free lunches at area parks and community centers this summer, with some even receiving breakfast or dinner, too. "A lot...

Author John Thiel signs copies of his book about the No-Pi-Ming Association during a recent program at the Elgin History Museum.

Elgin’s connection to Wisconsin town began with a vacation club

May 10, 2019 at 3:06 a.m.

For many residents of the Elgin area, summer vacation has long been synonymous with heading 400 miles north to a cabin or resort in the lake-dotted North Woods around Hayward,...

Mustangs, Thunderbirds, Model Ts coming to Elgin Sunday

May 10, 2019 at 3:06 a.m.

The annual Classic All Car Show will return to Elgin Sunday, July 19 with Thunderbird and Mustang cars from the 1950s and 1960s, plus Model Ts and other vintage cars...

Children play in a trough of animal feed in the petting zoo at the Kane County Fair.

Kane County Fair opens to perfect weather

May 10, 2019 at 3:05 a.m.

For the grade-school-age girls of the Weibel family, the Kane County Fair is a chance to walk around with their four little white dogs and have fun. For 26-year-old Sarah...

Aug. 4, 1967: Police guard Elgin streets during an "outbreak of riots and firebombing." The caption does not provide details about the cause of the riots.

Elgin marks 90th birthday of historian who came in search of a hometown

May 10, 2019 at 3:05 a.m.

When Milwaukee native E.C. "Mike" Alft moved to the Fox Valley to take a teaching job in 1950 — less than a week after he married his wife — Elgin...

Mariel Parra, who will be in first grade at Allen Elementary School in Aurora in the fall, shows off a book she brought home from her kindergarten class.

Summer assignments start early in some schools

May 22, 2019 at 2:13 p.m.

Mariel Parra has spent much of her free time the summer after her kindergarten year practicing reading, math and a little science. Mariel's mom, Ivonne Ramirez, sees her children start...

A box containing Roger Stettner's wife's cremains, stolen during an Elgin home invasion, has been returned.

Elgin man surprised by return of sentimental stolen box

May 10, 2019 at 3:04 a.m.

Donna Stettner returned home Friday. The cremated remains of the Elgin woman who died in 2013 went missing last month during a burglary at the Elgin home of Roger Stettner....

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