Bike week events wrap up this weekend in Elgin
This year's "Bike. Walk. Move: Elgin" week will climax Saturday with a morning full of activities at the Rakow Branch Library, at 275 W. Bowes Road, Elgin. From 9 to...
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Forum on globalizing tech education brings Chinese participants to ECC
Since the topic was how to make career technical education more internationally focused, it made sense that some of the participants were listening to the proceedings through headphones connected to...
Museum hosting African-American exhibit
An exhibit about the history of Elgin's African-Americans will be on display on the second floor of the Elgin History Museum, at 360 Park St., Elgin, until Aug. 7. Designed...
Did the ‘Underground Railroad’ stop in the Dundees and Elgin?
An account about a slave being smuggled in a false-bottomed wagon. The undisputed presence of some vehement "abolitionists" fighting slavery right here in the Dundees and Elgin. And then there's...
Model plane buffs to show their stuff in St. Charles air show
Dave Murray, of Elgin, makes his living in the pilot seat aboard United Airlines Boeing 777s, shuttling scores of passengers in a multi-million dollar aircraft between O'Hare Airport and Europe....
Former reporter to head school-community relations for District U46
The new head of Elgin School District U46's school-community relations department is a former news reporter who sometimes covered Elgin School District U46 for the baiduhai and more recently...
Huntley 3-year-old face of hospital fundraising campaign
At the age of 3, Matthew Erickson has become used to getting lots of attention. Pleasant attention from news reporters and pro athletes and well-wishers all over the world. And...
Open Door Clinic opens a new headquarters in Elgin
For 37 years, the Open Door Clinic was up on the sixth floor of the old Professional Building in downtown Elgin, giving the people who came to it for help...
Debate continues over secret U46 board recordings
Should newly elected school board members in Elgin District U46 be allowed to hear recordings of closed-session meetings held before they were elected? The debate on that issue continued at...
Norovirus probably caused Grumpy Goat sicknesses
Health officials suspect that norovirus, the "stomach flu" bug that has often spread through cruise ships, was behind the nausea, diarrhea and abdominal pain that struck at least 21 people...