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Elgin police to hold event honoring Autism Acceptance Month
Elgin police Cmdr. Eric Echeverria stands with a custom-wrapped department vehicle in honor of Autism Acceptance Month. The police department will host its first Heroes Unite outdoor event in partnership with the Autism Hero Project. Rick West | Staff Photographer Jenny McCarthy, pictured in St. Charles in 2017, will attend Saturday s Heroes Unite event in honor of Autism Acceptance Month. Daily Herald File Photo
Members of the Elgin Police Department will be sporting blue badges for Autism Acceptance Month. Rick West | Staff Photographer
The Elgin Police Department and the Autism Hero Project have created stickers for people to put in their home or car windows so if officers are called they ll know someone involved has autism. ....
The Kane County coroner said the woman who died while trying to help a young driver involved in a crash Monday night was killed when she was struck by an oncoming truck after she pushed her husband out of the way. ....
Updated 3/15/2021 6:21 PM An Elgin man was convicted Monday of second-degree murder for the shooting of a teenage rival in December 2016. Kane County Judge David Kliment issued the guilty verdict finding that Anton N. Cross killed Timothy Jones, 18, also of Elgin. Cross was 17 at the time.
He had been charged with first-degree murder, but Kliment found that Cross acted out of an unreasonable belief he faced death or imminent danger when he shot Jones and found him guilty of the lesser offense, according to a spokesman for the Kane County state s attorney s office. Cross, of the 300 block of Washington Street, has been in the Kane County jail since August 2018. ....
Elgin expands STEM internships to include high schoolers
Chris Nawrot started as a geographic information systems intern with the city of Elgin five years ago and was hired as a full-time GIS specialist a year ago. The city is expanding its STEM-related internship program this year to include 10 new positions for high school juniors and seniors. Rick West | Staff Photographer
Posted3/15/2021 5:30 AM It s not a stretch to say that an internship with the city of Elgin changed the course of Chris Nawrot s career. Nawrot was a student at Elgin Community College five years ago, working toward an associate degree in engineering science, when his adviser sent out an email blast about a GIS internship with the city. ....