The Courier-News asked each of the candidates running for the Elgin City Council in the April 1, 2025, election to complete a biographical form and to answer questions about issues facing the city.

We need something to draw people to visit Elgin. One suggestion is to have an indoor/outdoor water park with a hotel and restaurant. Another is to make Elgin a place where bachelor and ...

Severe winds from powerful overnight storms that blew through the Western and Northwest suburbs ripped off half the roof of the 101-year-old First United Methodist Church in Elgin.

KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - An Elgin man was arrested on Monday after deputies said he was found in possession of over two ounces of fentanyl and other drugs. According to the Kershaw County ...

Westbound lanes have been reduced on Route 20 in Elgin in advance of bridge widening work beginning Monday over Poplar Creek and St. Charles and Liberty streets. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News ...

One of the buildings damaged, however, was Elgin’s historic First United Methodist Church, in the 200 block of East Highland Avenue. The intense winds, reaching 70 miles per hour, ripped the ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- With a large part of the roof gone, services for Elgin's First United Methodist Church were held online on Sunday. But that was not enough for dozens of the congregation's ...

Originally designed in the late 1940s by famed modernist architect John “Jack” Elgin Woolf and used not once but twice as his personal residence, the multi-level home has been meticulously ...

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In its wake, a new breakfast and lunch restaurant from Random Tap's owners ... mid-May in the renovated home that currently holds the Elgin gastropub. Kimberly and John Gagliardi, who own Random ...

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