Articles in the Elgin News Category

By Harry Hitzeman | Daily Herald Staff Saying it could make better use of the tax revenue, the Elgin Area School District U-46 board “strongly opposes” the possible extension of a special taxing district used to spur development in downtown Bartlett. …

By Amanda Marrazzo | Special to the Tribune Elgin based School District U-46 Board of Education members unanimously approved a two-year contract extension to Supt. Jose Torres on Monday. The contract includes a 3.7 percent raise, increasing his salary …

This Old House’s July/August issue puts Elgin on its second annual “Best Old Neighborhoods” rankings. The community also tops the list of 50 US and Canadian neighborhoods that the magazine says have homes that deserve a long-term commitment. …

By MIKE DANAHEY mdanahey@scn1.com ELGIN — The beer flows once again downtown at Festival Park this weekend with the return of Brewfest, albeit with a slightly different name. Instead of Prairie Rock Brewfest, the event will be known as the Elgin …

The shop wouldn't be out of place in downtown Naperville, Long Grove or some north side neighborhood in Chicago. But it didn't happen in Elgin: Zibert currently is holding a going-out-of-business sale and will shut down sometime before her lease is up at the end of July.
Zibert said things were going fine until last July, when she first noticed a slide in sales, “and last Christmas we did half of what we did the year before.”
The booming economy went bust, people backed out of deals on condos in downtown Elgin, …