Elgin Mayor David Kaptain wants the city to put an advisory question on the November ballot allowing voters to weigh in on whether the Kimball Street dam should be removed.
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Elgin barber Jerry Newman is remembered by friends and customers as a fixture of the city’s downtown, quick with a smile and a wave for anyone who walked by his shop window on Chicago Street for six.
Last minute tickets remain available for Saturday’s second annual Starved Rock Country Community Foundation Stayin’ Alive Disco Ball, 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. at The Auditorium Ballroom, 109 Wright St., La Salle.
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.