Elgin City Councilman Steve Thoren, who has a special affection for the one Elgin's founding families, spearheaded an effort to move a monument to William Wing moved to a more prominent spot in Wing Park.
Fifty special guests and community members joined members of the Elgin Woman s Club for their 135th anniversary celebration at the Elgin History Museum July 23.
On Thursday, Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin honored a 90-year-old woman who decades ago was denied the chance to train at the hospital because she was Black.