Archive for October, 2005

If you haven’t seen Spring Hill Mall recently, check it out. The renovation has improved the food court and the atrium, which now has a water feature.

Some things in the news this week:
From the Daily Herald:
City staffers are negotiating with a property owner to buy a vacant 7¨-acre site south of Willard Avenue and Villa Street to become the future home of the Elgin Recreation Center.
Why do they want to call it the Elgin Recreation Center? Aside from the confusion that […]

Congratulations to Selim Bassoul and the folks at Middleby on their #10 ranking on the Forbes Magazine’s 2005 Best Small Companies list. Middleby gave $60,000 in equipment to ECC’s culinary arts school last year. We hope to see them grow.

What do you think of this description of Elgin from Lars Nilsen, a Judson College blogger:
Ok. I am currently living in Elgin, Illinois, which is about an hour West of Chicago. Most people have not heard of it, but it is a quite large subarb which is mostly populated be Mexicans. I have nothing bad […]