Articles in the Downtown Category

You can avoid crowds, traffic, long drives and drunk drivers by spending New Year’s Eve in Downtown Elgin. Courtesy of the Downtown Neighborhood Association here’s a list of some downtown establishments that will be open for celebrations.

“World Famous” Topnotch Tattoos is the place in Elgin to get tattoos and piercings. They’ve been in business more than a decade and are located on E. Chicago Street across from Public House and Medusa/Mission.

For my first post, I’m going to keep it positive with what I think is a pretty remarkable story: Patricia Keeney, owner of sporting goods and antiques store, Keeney’s, thought she may have to close its doors when she fell ill, needed hospitalization, and was diagnosed with cancer soon after. Instead, a group of volunteers, coordinated by the Downtown Neighborhood Association, stepped in to man the store while Keeney fights back, allowing the store to continue its 100+ year run.

Janus Theatre’s version of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, freely adapted and directed by Sean Hargadon, will open November 4 at the Elgin Art Showcase on the eighth floor of the Professional Building and run through November 14.

The Downtown Neighborhood Association of Elgin held its Awards Gala Thursday night at the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin.

The ArtSpace project will convert the Henrietta block in downtown Elgin into live/work spaces for 55 artists. Construction begins in the spring of 2011 and the first resident artists are expected to move in in the fall of the following year.

First United Methodist Church, Elgin IL