Elgin council plots strategy with goals for future Elgin council plots strategy with goals for future

ELGIN — At its committee of the whole meeting Wednesday evening, the Elgin City Council found itself in the midst of what former President George Bush once called “strategery.” That’s to say the council briefly reviewed a report on the city’s strategic planning workshop and discussed the next steps to be taken in coming up with such a plan. In late February, the city council and senior staff ...
http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/12722977-418/elgin-council-plots-strategy-with-goals-for-future.html

Published: Wed, 23 May 2012 09:53:47 -0700

Forensics report on Timmothy Pitzen disappearance

A private forensics lab in Elgin, Illinois released results after they processed evidence found on Amy Fry-Pitzen's SUV.
http://wqad.com/2012/05/11/forensics-report-on-timmothy-pitzen-disappearance/

Published: Fri, 11 May 2012 07:45:43 -0700

Group takes ‘Initiative’ to bring charter school to Elgin

ELGIN — At one charter school downstate, students have their own farm plot. They eat some of the produce they grow, even eggs from their own chickens. At another charter school in Chicago, administrators, teachers, parents and students decided to have single-sex seventh- and eighth-grade classrooms. At that same school, administrators also shifted gears after getting test scores in the middle of ...
http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/12699875-418/group-takes-initiative-to-bring-charter-school-to-elgin.html

Published: Tue, 22 May 2012 08:30:12 -0700

Woman arrested for trying to fake jackpot winning lottery ticket

An Elgin, Illinois, woman tried to cash in on the record $656 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot with a ticket she bought online eight minutes after the winning numbers were drawn, officials said today.
http://www.lotterypost.com/news/245685/2513801

Published: Tue, 01 May 2012 13:19:38 -0700

Newest Elgin special assessment improvements to start this summer

ELGIN — City officials said Monday that a long-awaited public works project using special assessment financing should finally get under way this summer. The streets involved in this project — labeled Special Assessment Area V — include Willard Avenue between Chicago Street and Villa Street, Illinois Avenue between Bent Street and May Street, Van Nostrand Place between Liberty Street and Illinois ...
http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/12676211-418/newest-elgin-special-assessment-improvements-to-start-this-summer.html

Published: Mon, 21 May 2012 07:49:34 -0700

Illinois House passes gambling bill with more casinos, slots at racetracks

The Illinois House approved a sweeping gambling expansion plan Wednesday, renewing an effort to build new casinos and put slot machines at Arlington Park that has stalled since last year. The plan would allow for 1,200 slot machines at the Arlington Heights track, as well as new casinos in Lake County, Chicago, the south suburbs, Rockford and downstate Danville.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120523/news/705239717

Published: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:31:00 -0700

Elgin-0’Hare in line for major improvements

After years of planning, construction could begin next year to bring the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway closer to at least one if its namesakes. And other major road improvements, including some to local tollways, also are in store. Since 2007, the Illinois Department of Transportation has been working with the Federal Highway Administration to improve connections between the existing Elgin-O’Hare ...
http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/12551942-418/elgin-0hare-in-line-for-major-improvements.html

Published: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:10:56 -0700

New-home sales rise in April

REAL ESTATE New-home sales rise in April Americans bought more new homes last month, the latest evidence that the U.S. housing market could be starting to recover. New-home sales increased 3.3 percent in April from...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/24/BU5T1OMD2I.DTL

Published: Thu, 24 May 2012 00:36:29 -0700

A look at local layers of Illinois government

ELGIN — A move to have voters elect trustees for the Fox River Water Reclamation District instead of having them appointed by local state legislators may be dead in the water. But its chief sponsor, state Rep. Keith Farnham, D-Elgin, says he still wants to look at cutting back on the perks enjoyed by them and others who hold office in some of the hundreds of similar governmental bodies in ...
http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/12676339-418/a-look-at-local-layers-of-illinois-government.html

Published: Mon, 21 May 2012 07:57:50 -0700

Meeting to look at ‘assaults on teachers’ rights’

ELGIN – The Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice group will host a general meeting from 2 to 5 p.m Saturday at First Congregational Church, 256 E. Chicago St., Elgin.
http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2012/05/09/55568887/index.xml

Published: Thu, 10 May 2012 03:30:00 -0700