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Former Elgin, South Barrington police chief Charles Gruber remembered as being ahead of his time Charles Gruber South Barrington Police Chief Charles Gruber in 2008.
Updated 4/28/2021 7:43 PM Former Elgin Police Chief Charles Gruber is remembered as being ahead of his time in implementing the community policing approach that now is front and center in law enforcement. Gruber, who also was police chief in South Barrington, died Monday. He was 74.
He spent more than four decades in law enforcement, starting as an officer in Addison after serving in the Marine Corps from 1964 to 1968. In 1976, he moved to Quincy to become the youngest police chief in the state. He served as Shreveport, Louisiana s chief from 1987 to 1990, returning to Illinois to take over as Elgin s chief in 1990, where he stayed until retiring in 1998. In 1999, he took his final job as a chief, working in South Barrington until 2008. ....