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When Ihor and Marinha Khatuntsev fled Ukraine with their sons in May of this year, they got out of the country with one bag each and were forced to leave everything else behind.

Students are back in school this week for the start of the 2022-23 academic year.

The Elgin History Museum, Elgin Public Museum, Fire Barn No. 5 Museum and the Elgin Area School District U-46 Planetarium are hosting the first Elgin Museum Crawl featuring a theme of catastrophes on scales from local to global.

Smiling kids, teary parents and eager teachers kicked off Otter Creek Elementary Schools 20th year Tuesday in Elgin. More than 35,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade headed back to classes in Elgin Area School District U-46.

DuKane ABATE is hosting a 2022 Election Debate for local, state, and federal candidates. All questions and topics will be motorcycle related as they will cover all issues, rights, and freedoms of motorcyclists, off-roaders and ATV riders in DuPage and Kane counties.

Registration is open for Fox Valley Robotics and Batavia Robotics 21st season with new robotics challenges for kids in first to 12th grades. Informational meetings are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 20-21, at Rotolo Middle School in Batavia.

Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin is hosting the first Fox Valley Performing Arts Roundtable, a discussion of the current state of the performing arts scene and how to collaborate to foster growth and creativity.

Overhead volleyball, sychronized from jumping and 91 beagles fill The Week in Pictures photo gallery for August 8-14, 2022.

To stimulate communication and interactions among scientists, artists, and the public, Fermilab in Batavia created an artist-in-residence program and a guest composer program. They are currently seeking applications for the 2023 cycle.

Elgin police took multiple people into custody early Sunday while investigating reports of shots fired west of the citys downtown.