Elgin (Illinois, United States)

Type: City

Name: Elgin (Illinois, United States)

Country: United States

Latitude: 42.040001

Longitude: -88.290001

population: 98,586

First reported 46 mins ago - Updated 46 mins ago - 1 reports

North Central College

Watts’ way

Years before anyone started talking very seriously about riverwalks and the like, May Theilgaard Watts had an idea.“We are human beings. We are able to walk upright on two feet. We need a footpath,” the Naperville naturalist wrote in a 1963 letter to ... [Published The Beacon News - 46 mins ago]

Entities: Buchtel (United States), North Central College, Batavia (Illinois, United States), Elgin (Illinois, United States), Naperville (United States)

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Ex-Deputy Chief Beeter indicted on 20 counts

ELGIN — Bob Beeter, a former deputy Elgin police chief who took early retirement in 2012 amid a scandal involving claims of adultery and email hacking, was indicted Tuesday on 20 felony counts by a Kane County grand jury.The state’s attorney’s office ... [Published Elgin Courier News - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Elgin (Illinois, United States), Stockton (Illinois, United States), Indictment

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 4 reports

Illinois Muslims welcome neighbors

Seeking to correct misconceptions about their religion, Muslims in the central US state of Illinois have invited their neighbors of different faiths to give them a better view of Islam."We need to move away from stereotypes that have been assigned to ... [Published IRIB World Service - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Islam, Religion, Carpentersville (United States), Elgin (Illinois, United States)

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Food Bank

Northern Illinois Food Bank?s Summer Food Service Program Provides Meals for Children At Risk of Hunger

_ Northern Illinois Food Bank today announces its participation in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). The Summer Food Service Program is designed to fill the gap that occurs when school lets out for summer vacation and children who received free ... [Published Chicago Tribune - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Elgin (Illinois, United States), Food Bank, Joliet (Illinois, United States)

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Give Me Five! aims to make every kid ready for kindergarten

ELGIN — Tyshay does not live in a “first-choice” neighborhood, said Angela Balk, in charge of early childhood assessment and community outreach for School District U46’s Give Me Five! project.Her mom doesn’t have a car or a support system, Balk said. ... [Published Elgin Courier News - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Elgin (Illinois, United States), Leadership, Linda Swanson, Gail Borden

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Speak Out: Cheap rentals in Elgin

Cheap rentals: I don’t know if anyone has noticed lately, but there are certain groups and individuals who are buying up the cheap houses in the Elgin area and then renting them out to the Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 8, which is ... [Published Elgin Courier News - May 20 2013]

Entities: Elgin (Illinois, United States), Cellphone, Cheap

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Council to discuss detention surveillance gear, fire department testing

ELGIN — The city council Wednesday night will consider paying for work to upgrade detention security and surveillance equipment at police headquarters.Council members also are scheduled to discuss contracting out testing and assessment in order to put ... [Published Elgin Courier News - May 20 2013]

Entities: Elgin (Illinois, United States), Custody, Surveillance

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

ECC grad shares life’s tests she’s passed for an education with her classmates

ELGIN — When Karen Gonzalez was maybe 12, she said, her grandma told her if you cut off a lizard’s tail, it grows back.Gonzalez always has been “so curious about things,” she said, so she rounded up about 10 lizards with a slingshot, cut off their tails ... [Published Elgin Courier News - May 20 2013]

Entities: Elgin Community College, Elgin (Illinois, United States), South Elgin (United States)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Grand Victoria Casino Employees Participate in Tough Mudder Challenge

_ ELGIN, ILLINOIS ? The following Grand Victoria Casino (GVC) employees will participate as a team (Good Vibrations Crew) in the Tough Mudder obstacle course challenge at the Seneca Hunt Club on Saturday, May 18, 2013: ? Leif Ekberg (Marketing)? Fabiane ... [Published Chicago Tribune - May 20 2013]

Entities: Casino, Francisco Rodriguez, Elgin (Illinois, United States)

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Speak Out: Don’t nix city stickers

Curious about Case site: I have a question about the land where the old Illinois Watch Case Company factory was located. They tore the building down and enclosed the property with a chain link fence. There are signs that say it belongs to a Native American ... [Published Elgin Courier News - May 19 2013]

Entities: Elgin (Illinois, United States), Property

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Prison sentence in Elgin sex attack

ST. CHARLES TWHP. — A homeless man has been sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting a woman in Elgin two months ago.Phillip J. Dillon, 46, agreed Friday to a sentence of 20 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections in exchange for a guilty plea ... [Published Elgin Courier News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Elgin (Illinois, United States), prison, Sex

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Local land and homebrew bills await Gov. Quinn’s signature

Two bills with local impact — one involving a rather complicated land deal between various governmental bodies, the other allowing homebrewed beer to be served at festivals — have passed the state House and Senate and are awaiting Gov. Quinn’s signat ... [Published Elgin Courier News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Keith Farnham, Elgin (Illinois, United States), Elgin Community College, Zoning

Quotes

"We need to move away from stereotypes that have been assigned to groups in our community" Elgin Mayor David Kaptain was quoted as saying by the Daily Herald

Illinois Muslims welcome neighbors [Published IRIB World Service - 8 hours ago]

"It feels like we're getting a little taste of the past" she said

Steam Into History train arrives in New Freedom [Published York Daily Record - 11 hours ago]

"Any Muslim you know, knowing them at the personal level is a good place to start."

Illinois Muslims Welcome Neighbors [Published IslamOnline NET - 20 hours ago]

"Had the defense presented evidence supporting Mulder as the aggressor, it would have bolstered the credibility of the defendant's explanation as to why he drew the gun in warning" the decision states

New trial for former NIU student charged in 2010 shooting [Published Daily Chronicle - May 20 2013]

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