Wayne Baker

Elgin developer Leo Goldschmidt pitched a redevelopment plan for a former junior high school site this week that is similar to one the City Council had rejected two weeks ago....

The city could gain as much as $250,000 in additional state tax revenue over the next two fiscal years thanks to a special census showing its population has grown by...

Neighborhood opponents of a proposed west side movie theater complex left this week's City Council meeting dissatisfied, despite the aldermen's promise to study their concerns about traffic. The council voted...

In an undercover police investigation last month, four clerks were arrested at three separate liquor stores for selling beer to a 19-year-old informant. The sting marked the third time in...

Three west side neighborhoods are protesting plans by a Grand Rapids, Mich., company to build a 10-screen movie complex off of Randall Road that residents say will create traffic, noise...

A City Council committee is studying a plan to charge developers a fee to help offset the cost of additional traffic signals made necessary through growth. "Inevitably, the bigger this...

Nearly a week after 30 people were taken to the hospital suffering from dizziness and headaches, officials are clueless as to what may have caused the mass illness at St....

A familiar building near a busy east side downtown corner will be torn down this week as part of a redevelopment plan to add more parking space by the Fox...

For years, Mayor Jeff Schielke has been bombarded with letters and petitions from schoolchildren encouraging the city to attract a movie theater to town. By next summer, the hundreds who...

Officials have indicated the city would impose limits on the redevelopment of the former Batavia Junior High School property that are stricter than the developer was seeking. But whether the...