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Work is to begin Monday on the Route 20 bridge in Elgin that crosses over Poplar Creek and St. Charles and Liberty streets. This is how it looks when looking up from St. Charles Street. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Route 20 going to be a bear for Elgin drivers this summer with multiple construction projects planned

March 14, 2025 at 9:31 p.m.

Just when you thought congestion on Route 20 in Elgin couldn’t get any worse, the Illinois Department of Transportation has announced repair work is to start Monday on the bridge...

Denise Richardson, a Carpentersville Village Board trustee and former general manager of the Spring Hill Mall, died March 8 after being treated for cancer for a year. (Village of Carpentersville)

Denise Richardson, Carpentersville village trustee and Spring Hill Mall manager, dead at age 59

March 14, 2025 at 4:19 p.m.

Last March, Denise Richardson was on hand to say goodbye to Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee/Carpentersville when it closed after four decades. A year later, family and friends are...

This overhead view shows the Elgin site at Villa Street and Shales Parkway where the new headquarters for Skitch Electric Co. will be built by LIAB Investments if it secures a tax break from Cook County. (City of Elgin)

Electric firm to move its headquarters to Elgin site if Cook County OKs tax break

March 13, 2025 at 12:51 p.m.

Skitch Electric Co. will relocate its new headquarters to Elgin from Streamwood if the company constructing the building can secure a Cook County tax break.

There will be no Juneteenth celebration in Elgin's Festival Park, organizers say, because June 22, one of the days they wanted to use, was taken by the Michelada Festival. (City of Elgin)

Organizers cancel Elgin’s Juneteenth event after date it wanted was given to Michelada Festival

March 11, 2025 at 2:58 p.m.

The annual Juneteenth Festival in Elgin's Festival Park has been canceled this year because the date organizers wanted for the event was given to a different group, the African American...

Mufti Yasir Nadeem, founder and president of Burhan Academy, was one of the school dignitaries who welcomed guests Wednesday to an open house at the new campus. The school is located in the former Elgin Academy. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Burhan Academy offers the public a look at its new Elgin school during open house

March 6, 2025 at 2:10 p.m.

Burhan Academy opened its doors to the Elgin community Wednesday to show off the new school and share its mission.

The Rev. Marion Phipps of St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church places ashes on the forehead of Elgin resident Sebastian Abbinanti ashes and offers a prayer during the church's drive-thru Ash Wednesday program. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Elgin church’s drive-thru service offers convenient way to receive Ash Wednesday ashes

March 6, 2025 at 12:53 p.m.

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin has offered Christians a unique way to start the Lenten season by dispensing...

A selection of THC products available in stores that mimic existing brands are on display April 11, 2024, at the Illinois Capitol in Springfield. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Elgin council rejects business pleas, bans sale of edible THC-infused products

March 3, 2025 at 2:35 p.m.

Despite smoke shop owners urging city officials to regulate THC-infused products rather than ban them, the Elgin City Council this week narrowly approved an ordinance that made them illegal.

The village of Carpentersville has hired an engineering firm to come up with possible solutions to the traffic problems near Randall and Miller roads. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Carpentersville hires firm to come up with solutions for Randall Road congestion near Menards/Woodman’s

February 27, 2025 at 1:05 p.m.

Carpentersville will pay an engineering firm $200,000 to evaluate possible solutions to the congestion at Miller and Randall roads, an area near the Menards and Woodman’s Market stores that’s become...

South Elgin Police Department SUV (South Elgin Police Department)

South Elgin seeking the public’s help in gunfire incident near Fox Meadow school

February 25, 2025 at 2:20 p.m.

South Elgin police are requesting the public’s help in a gunfire incident near an elementary school Monday evening.

Greg Schiller, an Elgin resident and homeless advocate, helped the city of Elgin, Elgin Township, Food for Greater Elgin and other groups set up a food pantry at the Lexington Inn & Suites to ensure the homeless people living there had access to food. (Gloria Casas/The Courier-News)

Elgin homeless being housed at hotel being fed with food pantry donations, soup kettle meals

February 21, 2025 at 7:55 p.m.

The homeless living at an Elgin hotel this winter are being fed with meals donated by local soup kettles and groceries supplied by food pantries and local donors, officials said

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