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Walker Road to close for three months of bridge work

May 10, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.

Walker Road near Hampshire will close for three months of bridge work starting this week. According to a press release from the Kane County Division of Transportation, the road will...

People elected or re-elected to the Elgin School District U46 board take the oath of office in May. From left are Cody Holt, Sue Kerr, Jeanette Ward, Phil Costello and Traci O'Neal Ellis.

Board members press U46 on prevailing wage, course content, diversity

May 10, 2019 at 2:59 a.m.

New members brought a different view to the discussion at Monday's meeting of the Elgin School District U46 Board. On topics ranging from course content to the Prevailing Wage Act...

One of scores of document cameras used to project materials in U46 schools rests beside Information Services Director Crag Williams as he and two other administrators explain Elgin School District U46's Technology Master Plan to the school board Monday.

District U46 to spend $14 million on computers over 3 years

May 10, 2019 at 2:59 a.m.

Elgin School District U46 will spend $14 million over the next three years on new computer equipment and the gear to make it work, according to a U46 Technology Master...

Jeff Meyer, right, has joined the Elgin Community College Board as a newly elected trustee while Trustee Eleanor MacKinney, center, was chosen by the board for a third year as its vice chairperson. At left is Trustee Art Sauceda.

Elgin Community College budget relies on assumptions in an uncertain world

May 10, 2019 at 2:59 a.m.

As the leaders of Elgin Community College budgeted spending for the fiscal year that begins July 1, they had to make several assumptions while Illinois educational finances remain very unsettled....

NIU, ECC join in offering business degree

May 10, 2019 at 2:59 a.m.

Elgin Community College is one of five northwest suburban community colleges that have partnered with Northern Illinois University to make it more convenient and less expensive for students to earn...

Elgin Community College's athletic programs, housed in the Events Center at left, will be supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax and tuition money while the Visual and Performing Arts Center, at right, will be expected to pay its own way.

Bookstore profits to subsidize childcare, continuing education at ECC

August 18, 2019 at 7:49 p.m.

One lingering controversy at Elgin Community College Board has been whether "auxiliary enterprises" like the bookstore, the cafeteria and the daycare center should be expected to support themselves, be allowed...

Movie filming marks climax of a five-year journey

May 10, 2019 at 2:59 a.m.

The road to making "The Resurrection of Gavin Stone" was some five years long. It began when Director Dallas Jenkins, who is the son of Jerry B. Jenkins — co-author...

A "wardrobe" truck full of movie costumes was parked with several other vehicles next to Washington School Tuesday, two blocks away from the filming location for "The Resurrection of Gavin Stone."

Harvest Bible Chapel branch makes feature movie in Fox Valley

May 10, 2019 at 2:59 a.m.

As Dallas Jenkins led 50-plus cast and crew members filming in the Elgin, Geneva and Aurora areas over the past four weeks, it was hard to distinguish that operation from...

Anne Viz of Elgin got to pose with TV star Brett Dalton Tuesday after she realized he was starring in a movie being shot across the street.

TV stars shining around Elgin

May 10, 2019 at 2:58 a.m.

If you thought you saw a TV star wandering the streets of Elgin, Geneva or Aurora over the past four weeks, you may not be imagining things. Movie director Dallas...

Health department looking into illness following golf outing

May 10, 2019 at 2:58 a.m.

Kane County health officials are trying to figure out why at least 17 people became ill after attending a golf outing at the new Grumpy Goat Tavern at the city-owned...

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