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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 Hallgarth. “Lots of people were tickled to death that we didn’t give up and went ahead and ...

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 significant storm Jan. 25-26. Chicago fire Chief Frank Velez said the last time he counted, there had been 1...

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.