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Elgin Community College volunteers help clients of the Association for Individual Development shoot baskets during Friday's Big Event.

ECC sends volunteers to service projects in a ‘Big Event’

May 10, 2019 at 2:48 a.m.

Painting hopscotch squares on a linear playground, pulling up weeds in a shady forest, organizing a warehouse and playing basketball with disabled people, 40 students and 10 employees from Elgin...

DuPage people will be happy about tax bills; Kane residents won’t

May 10, 2019 at 2:46 a.m.

For two years, assembling by the hundreds in Bartlett town hall meetings and speaking out during school board meetings, the people who live in the DuPage County sections of Elgin...

No request for a recount yet in tight Pingree Grove elections

May 10, 2019 at 2:46 a.m.

In Pingree Grove's April 7 election the apparent new village president won by just two votes and one of the candidates for trustee by only three votes. But nobody ha...

Elgin Community College ends Sexual Assault Awareness Month with a play

May 10, 2019 at 2:46 a.m.

Through the month of April, Elgin Community College has been focusing a series of special programs on the issue of Sexual Assault Awareness. And that month will end Thursday night,...

St. Edward High School students look skyward to watch a Flight for Life helicopter approach during their Operation Prom Night Tuesday afternoon.

Feigned death, arrest, helicopter bring ‘prom night’ safety to St. Ed’s

May 10, 2019 at 2:45 a.m.

"I'm the girl who got killed," said an otherwise healthy-looking Lauryn Jones as drama teacher Healy Rodman dabbed bloody wounds onto her face and head with theatrical paint. Jones was...

Milton Williams Jr. of Chicago, a member of the black Tuskegee Airmen, explained that groundbreaking World War II project to attendees at the "Project 2-3-1" premiere in Elgin.

Documentary, exhibit about Elgin blacks draws 600 to premiere

May 10, 2019 at 2:45 a.m.

With a capacity crowd of 600 looking on Sunday, the moment that Ernie Broadnax has dreamed about for decades but suspected might never come became reality. A 75-minute documentary movie...

Smoke and flames erupt from the scene of a train derailment March 5, 2015, near Galena.

Rolling pipeline raises concerns for Aurora, Naperville, Elgin leaders

May 25, 2019 at 12:37 p.m.

As Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner watches mile-long trains of black tank cars full of crude oil from North Dakota roll through the heart of Illinois' second-biggest city, he wonders what...

District U46 approves a vague plan; now administrators must add specifics

May 10, 2019 at 2:44 a.m.

Months in the making, Elgin School District U46 has a new long-term strategic plan to guide it over the next five years. After a long series of focus sessions and...

Movie about history of Elgin’s African Americans to premiere Sunday

May 10, 2019 at 2:44 a.m.

Dreamed of for decades by African-American leader Ernie Broadnax, finally turned into reality over the past two years by director Phil Broxham with the help of the Elgin History Museum,...

The Elgin School District U46 Enrollment and Facilities Committee considers school boundary changes this week.

Elgin U46 eyes school boundary changes

May 10, 2019 at 2:43 a.m.

Elgin School District U46's Enrollment and Facilities Committee members are reviewing attendance boundary changes that would affect at least 13 elementary schools, most of them in Elgin. The committee, made...

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