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Archive for October, 2007

Remembering the Civic Center

Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Filed under: citycouncil, downtown

The Gail Borden Public Library building of the Civic Center, as it looked two years ago:

Gail Borden Public Library, Civic Center

And as it looked several weeks ago:

As you can see, not much effort has been put into turning it into a usable field. It’s been seeded, but there’s no top soil–obviously that’s not the […]

What’s going on here?

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Filed under: downtown

What’s going on here, I wonder. Does anyone know? Is that just material from the sidewalk construction or are they doing work on this vacant site?
This is Grove Avenue, by the way, somewhat across from Mad Maggie’s.

Yahoo search includes Flickr results

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Filed under: Uncategorized

I’ve wondered for years why Yahoo, which owns Flickr, never included images from Flickr in their image search results. Instead of getting nice pictures of Elgin, we’d get irrelevant images that happened to be on pages that somehow mentioned “elgin illinois.” Well finally that has changed. On Monday, Yahoo released a major […]

Downtown neighborhood

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Filed under: business, downtown

Try typing “downtown neighborhood” into one of the search engines, and you’ll see something interesting. Elgin’s very own Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA) shows up on the front page. It’s #8 in Google and #5 in Yahoo. That’s right, Elgin’s DNA beats out the downtown neighborhood associations of much larger cities. That’s […]