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Student volunteers Alina Ayala of Elgin and Kenia Najero of Streamwood — both of Hispanic descent — prepare to guide new students into orientation at Elgin Community College Wednesday.

Elgin Community College closing gap between Hispanic, white students

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

Elgin Community College has made progress in raising performance of Hispanic students, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to know how. Unfortunately, the college has been trying so...

The Elgin Public Museum's new butterfly exhibit includes a mobile showing hundreds of species plus displays explaining how to attract and identify the insects.

Elgin Public Museum exhibit focuses on attracting butterflies

June 15, 2018 at 3:18 p.m.

Fluttering and colorful, the 140 species of butterflies that frequent Illinois are among the most appreciated of summer visitors. But how do you persuade them to move into your yard?...

Endangered butterfly species not yet taking hold in Elgin fen

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

About 20 species of butterflies can often be found often in area yards, but the endangered species scientists tried to introduce in Elgin still is not showing up. The endangered...

District U46 may outsource food production for elementary schools

May 10, 2019 at 2:57 a.m.

For 30 years, 14,000 to 18,000 breakfasts and lunches for the 40 elementary schools in Elgin School District U46 have been put together in a central kitchen attached to Eastview...

Westbound ramp from Rt. 25 to I-90 closing for most of summer in Elgin

May 10, 2019 at 2:57 a.m.

In the long run, the current multiyear rebuild and widening of I-90 will add some more ways to get onto that tollway — going westbound at Barrington and Elmhurst roads,...

School bus drivers deliver books to Elgin School District U46 kids

May 10, 2019 at 2:57 a.m.

If you see a school bus this summer in the Elgin parts of School District U46, it could be delivering books. And they won't even be costing taxpayers anything except...

Karen Beyer, left, executive director of the Ecker Center for Mental Health, takes questions from Pat Szpekowski of the Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce Wednesday.

State’s money woes remind nonprofits of 2009, Ecker CEO tells chamber

May 10, 2019 at 2:57 a.m.

In her decades-long career in the mental health and counseling field, Ecker Center for Mental Health boss Karen Beyer has seen some big challenges. She almost went to jail for...

A life-presever ring now hangs along Elgin's Kimball Street as in the background 20 firefighters salute the memory of two who drowned there 41 years ago.

Elgin firefighters honor two who drowned in 1974

May 10, 2019 at 2:57 a.m.

It was a beautiful, sunny June afternoon that Sunday in 1974 when Michael Whalen and Stan Balsis gave their lives rescuing a man in the Fox River, three now-retired Elgin...

Fifth-graders at Highland Elementary School in Elgin sit at their computers after finishing one of five sessions of PARCC testing in March.

District U46 may spend $5.1 million on computer equipment

May 10, 2019 at 2:57 a.m.

Administrators of Elgin School District U46 will present a multi-million-dollar, multi-year master plan for increasing and modernizing the computers in U46 schools when the U46 Board of Education holds its...

Water leak hits key Huntley intersection

May 10, 2019 at 2:57 a.m.

A water main break in Huntley Monday night couldn't have happened at a worst place, with respect to traffic. Water began oozing from the ground just after Monday's evening rush...

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