Articles in the Elgin News Category

The Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin will begin exploring whether adding a live entertainment venue to its repertoire will help it better compete with Des Plaines’ Rivers Casino. Since the Des Plaines casino opened last summer, the Grand Victoria has …

By Mike Danahey mdanahey@stmedianetwork.com February 7, 2012 2:16PM ELGIN — With the death of her husband last year, former state representative and City Council member Ruth Munson has taken an ownership role with the hyper local website BocaJump.com.

“It’s either going to affect school districts who don’t have the money to absorb those costs,” said Elgin Area Unit 46 spokesman Tony Sanders, “or it’s going to affect the teachers who will have to pick up an increase on their paychecks for their …

Cathy Hurlbut, R-Elgin, suggested that they needed to move sooner rather than later, because the building would be a nuisance. “To think that some buyers are going to come in and pay you top dollar and tear down the building, they’re not,” she said.

The Chicago Sun-Times followed suit in December, along with its chain of suburban newspapers, the Beacon-News (Aurora), The Courier-News (Elgin), The Herald-News (Joliet), Lake County News-Sun (Gurnee), Post-Tribune (Merrillville, Ind.) and the …

But today, the only guarantee communities along the western edge of O’Hare have is that there will be an extension of the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway and a western bypass around the airport — and that they must help raise $300 million of the project’s $3.4 …

The father and son owners of Blackjack’s Gentlemen’s Club skimmed nearly $4 million they were paid by strippers at the Elgin club and used the business as a front to hide additional income from an illegal online bookmaking business, federal prosecutors …