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Archive for March, 2008

An Elgin concert hall

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Filed under: arts, citycouncil, downtown

Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal - britannica.com
If it looks like this, I won’t complain.
One of the reasons that I’ve found it hard to support an Elgin concert hall is that I have a sense of what kind of building they might build. One of the papers reported sometime last year or maybe the previous […]

City council preview

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Filed under: politics

Items on the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting:

Consideration of Proposed Bikeway Master Plan as presented by TranSystems, Inc.
Consideration of a Contract with School District U-46 for the Police Liaison Program for the 2007-2008 School Year ($339,885)
Consideration of 2008 50/50 Historic Architectural Grant Program Eligibility List ($240,000)
Consideration of Annual Budget for the Northern Illinois Special Recreation Association […]

Daniel Henney went to ECC?

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Filed under: Uncategorized

Well that’s what Wikipedia says, and of course Wikipedia has never been known to lie, though occasionally it gets all the facts wrong. I’ll leave it up to Elgin Community College alumni to confirm or deny his enrollment (please comment).
Who is this guy anyway? Well, I think he’s better known in Korea than […]

Say hello to your new congressman

Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Filed under: politics

Bill Foster beat Jim Oberweis by a margin of 6% to become the new 14th district congressman. I don’t think a lot of people expected a Foster win, and certainly not by such a large margin as this. The Chicago Tribune described it as a “stunning upset.”
The influential Capitol Fax Blog asks, “Now […]