Red Bar Winery may be coming to downtown Elgin. The city council approved it Wednesday night.
The applicant (Ellsworth James Canfield) is proposing to establish an eating and drinking place that will offer a unique dining and entertainment experience. A limited menu and wine tasting will be available. Wine making can be experienced first hand […]
Not a lot of people at last night’s meeting. That goes not just for the audience, but for the council itself. Councilmen Robert Gilliam, John Steffen and John Walters were absent.
The Mission nightclub gets the go-ahead for filming an MTV show
Artspace gets $25K for a “comprehensive marketing study of area artists”
Tongue N Chic […]
Nothing really. But I love Elgin trivia, and this one escaped my attention when the news came out a few years ago. It looks like Steve Jobs tried to patent the iPod interface, but was beaten to it by one John Platt, an Elgin native!
The company’s patent application, which lists Apple vice president […]
The New York Times published a couple of articles last week that relate to one of my recent posts about urban homesteading. One of the things I didn’t mention in that post about small-scale agriculture is that a lot of produce grown by backyard or small-lot farmers can be brought to market. According […]
