Deb Horrell News Today

ELGIN — No event was perhaps missed more in Elgin during the pandemic than the storied Elgin Stampede. A year after the Stampede was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, locals and visitors packed Eighth Avenue in Elgin for the Grand Parade on the final day of rodeo action on Saturday, July 10. Fans and rodeo goers alike filled the Stampede Grounds with hardly an empty seat in the house from July 7 to July 10. “Everybody was happy to be here,” said Elgin Stampede President Ty H...