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Elgin Community College Culinary Arts Program will host a “Flavor for Flights” fundraiser, a six-course meal paired with wines, on Oct. 30 at the school's Spartan Terrace Restaurant. (Elgin Community College)

Elgin News Digest: District U-46 enrollment declines this year; ECC Culinary Arts Program hosting 6-course meal

October 26, 2026 at 2:20 p.m.

Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.

The Ogle family home in the Old Town section of Carpentersville is elaborately decorated for the Halloween season. Homeowners Mike and Sarah Ogle said the will keep their display up through Nov. 1. (Ogle family)

Carpentersville couple goes all out in decorating their scary ‘Blud House’

October 23, 2026 at 12:49 p.m.

Carpentersville couple Sarah and Mike Ogle have been putting up their clownishly macabre Halloween display for the last 13 years.

This illustration is of the trial of George Jacobs for witchcraft in 1692 from the collection at the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts. A program on “Accused: A Salem Witch Faces Her Fate” will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Gail Borden Public Library's South Elgin branch. (MPI/Getty Images)

Elgin News Digest: Salem witch trial progrgam at South Elgin library; ECC to host humorous horror author

October 23, 2026 at 11:41 a.m.

Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.

Seven-year-old Levi Colorado and his twin sister, Lia, show off their secret handshake before the final game of the coach-pitched baseball season Saturday, Oct. 17 at Jim Hansen Park in South Elgin. Like Lia, their mother, Lessia, was also the only female player on the team when she played baseball when she was their age. (Mike Danahey/The Courier-News)

Thirty years apart, mother and daughter the only girls on boys baseball team

October 22, 2026 at 12:01 p.m.

Thirty years after her mother was the only girl on the boys baseball team, her daughter is doing the same thing on South Elgin team.

Nate Davidson is the director of the truck driving program at Elgin Community College. ECC has consolidated all the program's offerings into a new facility, which has been named the CDL Truck Driving Center. (Elgin Community College)

ECC holding open house for newly consolidated truck driving school

October 22, 2026 at 11:03 a.m.

Elgin Community College's new 4,000-square-foot, $6.6 million CDL Truck Driving Center opened in August.

These are some of the entries in the 2023 pumpkin carving/decorating contest at The Depot in downtown East Dundee. This year the contest will be held Saturday. (Mike Danahey/The Courier-News)

Elgin News Digest: Historical society holding ‘haunted car show’; pumpkin carving contest Saturday at Dundee Depot

October 21, 2026 at 2:31 p.m.

Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.

German actor Max Schreck stars as the vampire Count Orlok in the classic silent horror film, "Nosferatu," which will be shown for free Oct. 23 at First Congregational Church of Elgin. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Elgin News Digest: Free screening of ‘Nosferatu’ at First Congregational; Elgin Image award winners presented at ceremony

October 20, 2026 at 11:14 a.m.

Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.

Elgin Community College is hosting a job fair on Tuesday, Oct. 20.(Elgin Community College)

Elgin News Digest: Job Fair, Diaper Drive, College Night, Manufacturing Center Donation

October 16, 2026 at 6:44 a.m.

Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.

St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin recently made the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Gold Level Honor Roll for Acute Care Antimicrobial Stewardship. Advocate Sherman in Elgin also made the Gold Honor Roll. (Photo Courtesy of St. Joseph Hospital/Prime Healthcare).

St. Joseph Hospital and Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin recognized by Illinois Department of Public Health

October 15, 2026 at 3:15 p.m.

St. Joseph Hospital and Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin have made the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Gold Level Honor Roll for Acute Care Antimicrobial Stewardship.

The Willow Trio is performing at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin on Oct. 18.

Elgin News Digest: Willow Trio performing; Lords Park Zoo fundraiser, municipal election petitions, Carpentersville offices temporary move

October 14, 2026 at 7:00 a.m.

Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.

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