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No one was injured in an Elgin house fire that caused more than $25,000 in damages Sunday morning, according to an Elgin Fire Department news release.

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...

Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas Chicago Tribune Much like the very snow that prompted the problem, reports of roof and building collapses started sporadically but soon snowballed into an avalanche of property destruction, financial woes and loss of life. By the time at least two more buildings fell in Chicago early Monday, city officials estimated nearly a building a day had crumbled under the weight of the snow in approximately the past four weeks since the season’s first signific...

Two more buildings collapsed early Monday in Chicago under the weight of recent snowfall and city officials now estimate there have been about 25 or 30 such collapses this year.

A single wall is all that’s still standing after a building collapsed in Elgin on Monday morning, a day after a vacant building in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood met a similar fate.

A 34-year-old Rochester woman was taken to Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Marys following the crash Wednesday evening. Written By: Post Bulletin staff reports | 9:11 am, Dec. 24, 2020 × Minnesota State Patrol trooper police car A Rochester woman suffered non-life threatening injuries Wednesday afternoon after the SUV she was riding in lost control and struck a tree. The Minnesota State Patrol as well as Elgin Fire and Ambulance responded to a crash about 5:45 p.m. on Minnesota Highway 24...

Updated 12/9/2020 5:31 PM Retired Elgin Deputy Fire Chief Bill Freiberg died Tuesday at Sherman Hospital from complications of COVID-19, according to Elgin Fire Chief Robb Cagann. He was 74.   Freiberg retired in 2003 after 27 years with the Elgin Fire Department. Longtime friend and fellow retired firefighter Larry Judkins said theyd been pals for 55 years, since back when they both worked at Eagle Foods on Liberty Street in Elgin, with Judkins working in produce and Freiberg in housewares. I...