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Former Elgin mayor, teacher and historian E.C. "Mike" Alft died Monday at the age of 96 in Pennsylvania. Alft served on the Elgin City Council and was Elgin mayor from 1967 to 1971.
Elgin City Council members held their biweekly meeting Wednesday at Hawthorne Hill Nature Center, spending two hours in a "cultural introductions" training session with their diversity, equity and inclusion consultants inQUEST.
After a pandemic year of makeshift observances, many communities are returning to in-person Memorial Day ceremonies. Elgin and Palatine are among many suburbs who are happy to be back holding traditional programs.
Elgin council swears in four members, says goodbye to Gavin and Lopez Newly minted Elgin City Council member Dustin Good is congratulated by his wife Stephanie following Wednesday's swearing-in ceremony. Rick West | Staff Photographer Steve Thoren is sworn in to his new seat on the Elgin City Council during Wednesday's meeting. Rick West | Staff Photographer Corey Dixon gets a congratulatory hug following his swearing-in ceremony at Wednesday's city council meeting in Elgin. Dixon was reelected in the April election. Rick West | Staff Photographer Carol Rau...
Final counts don't change results of close Fox Valley races Updated 4/21/2021 4:22 PM Just two votes were the final margin of victory in a pair of Fox Valley-area races that were too close to call until Tuesday's deadline for counting the final ballots in the April 6 election. In Burlington, Mary Kay Wlezen defeated two-term incumbent village president Bob Walsh by a margin of 47 votes to 45. Walsh said he was disappointed, but accepted the final outcome. "When there's that low a count, there's really not much chance for an error," he said. In St. Charles Unit District 303, Ed...