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Elgin Area Rapid Response uses social media to post details on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions and tries to educate people on their rights should they be approached by a federal immigration enforcement agent, a volunteer says. (Elgin Area Rapid Response)

Elgin Rapid Response Team seeking more volunteers, donations as immigrant crackdown continues

September 22, 2025 at 1:22 p.m.

Elgin Rapid Response Team, which helps immigrants detained in ICE raids, is in need of volunteers and donations, an organizers says.

Centro de Información and Elgin Cooperative Ministry organized an Interfaith Community Prayer Vigil Wednesday in response to the ICE raids being conducted in Elgin and other areas. It was held at First Presbyterian Church of Elgin. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Candlelight vigil in Elgin a call for prayers and action in wake of ICE raids

September 18, 2025 at 12:29 p.m.

Prayers were mixed with calls to action Wednesday night during an Elgin interfaith candlelight vigil held in response to what community leaders say have been "inhumane" ICE raids using military-style...

Anne Won and her daughter, Ella Joy, pose for a photo at the "gold party" Anne hosted Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, at their South Elgin home. The event was a way to celebrate pediatric cancer patients -- as Ella Joy once was -- and those going through treatments now as well as to draw attention to the need for more research. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

South Elgin family’s ‘gold party’ celebrates pediatric cancer patients and survivors

September 16, 2025 at 3:38 p.m.

South Elgin woman's "gold party" celebrates pediatric cancer patients and survivors, like her 16-year-old daughter.

Three road construction projects on Dundee Avenue, including one that calls for the installation of new traffic signals at Dundee and Slade avenues, will make for some fun driving this fall for anyone who uses the roadway on a regular basis. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Dundee Avenue in Elgin to be tied up with 3 road construction projects

September 13, 2025 at 12:38 a.m.

With three road construction projects underway or planned to start, a busy Dundee Road in Elgin is about to get a lot more difficult to navigate.

PADS of Elgin is facing a $500,000 budget gap that threatens the services it provides for the homeless, its executive director says. (PADS of Elgin)

PADS of Elgin call on the public to help cover $500,000 budget deficit

September 12, 2025 at 7:03 p.m.

PADS of Elgin is facing a $500,000 budget gap that threatens the services it provides to the homeless, its executive director says.

Federal agents walk down Michigan Avenue toward a crowd of protesters outside the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program office, ISAP, run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the South Loop on June 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Elgin council to adopt resolution demanding ICE agents be unmasked

September 12, 2025 at 4:26 p.m.

The Elgin City Council is taking a symbolic stand against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, approving a resolution demanding laws be passed prohibiting ICE agents from wearing masks.

School District U-46 is is seeking city approval to build a new sports stadium on this site at Larkin High School in Elgin. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Panel recommends Elgin council OK new Larkin HS sports stadium

September 9, 2025 at 2:05 p.m.

Larkin High School's plan to build a new 2,500-seat sports stadium moves to the Elgin City Council with a recommendation for approval from the city's Planning and Zoning Commission.

Piles of rubble are all that remain above ground on the site of the former Spring Hill Mall. The West Dundee-owned portion of the old shopping center is about 90% demolished, with some underground areas still needing to be removed, officials said. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Spring Hill Mall demo nearing finish other than for Kohl’s, set to start soon

September 5, 2025 at 7:24 p.m.

About 90% of the former Spring Hill Mall is gone and work demolishing the final anchor store set to begin in the next couple of weeks, officials said.

Rabbi Michael Ben Yosef, left, of the Chicago Activist Coalition for Justice, joins Reginald Clay at a news conference on Sept. 2, 2025, outside Carpentersville Village Hall at which they demanded answers about the Aug. 28, 2025, shooting of Clay’s cousin, DeShawn Jones. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Family of Carpentersville man shot by police demand answers about what happened

September 5, 2025 at 12:41 p.m.

The family of a man shot by Carpentersville police in his home last week wants more information about what happened, including the release of body camera footage from the incident.

Howard Schock, whose family has owned businesses in East Dundee for six decades, stands in front of the pavilion he and his wife donated to Lions Park, land for which was donated by his grandfather, Frederick “Fred” Schock, in 1955. (Howard Schock)

Schock follows his grandfather’s example, donates pavilion to Lions Park in East Dundee

September 2, 2025 at 2:38 p.m.

Taking a page from his grandfather's book, Howard Schock and his wife have funded a pavilion in Lions Park, land for which Frederick "Fred" Schock donated to the Dundee Township...

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