Mike Alft said Thursday evening that while growing up during the Depression, his family moved to wherever his father could land a job.
That meant attending 10 different schools before he graduated high school. But Alft said Thursday that when he moved to Elgin 56 years ago, he felt he had finally found the “hometownâ€? that […]
Frank Craig is in top form here. Much improved from the tired and cranky image he projected at the Elgin LWV candidates forum.
You could have seen this one coming (read article). But it was reassuring to read about the mayor’s position on this:
Zoning is meant to bring order to development, he said, but government should not try to manage development to the point that it begins interfering with the free market. (Daily Courier 3/5/07)
“Elgin voters say ‘no’ to extreme stance”
This was the headline for a Daily Herald story about Richard Bennett failing to win enough votes in the primary.
Bennett tallied the seventh highest number of votes (715) in Tuesday’s primary, which made him just shy of moving on to the April general election….Although Bennett disagreed, Elgin voters seem […]
