The Courier-News asked each of the candidates running for the Elgin City Council in the April 1, 2025, election to complete a biographical form and to answer questions about issues facing the city.

A Friday-night storm strong enough to tear off part of the roof of First United Methodist Church in downtown Elgin will be evaluated as a possible tornado by the National Weather Service.

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- With a large part of the roof gone, services for Elgin's First United Methodist Church were held online on Sunday. But that was not enough for dozens of the congregation's ...

We need to work closely with our police department to find a solution to make people feel safer to go downtown Elgin. How would you describe the state of your community's finances? What should be ...

One of the buildings damaged, however, was Elgin’s historic First United Methodist Church, in the 200 block of East Highland Avenue. The intense winds, reaching 70 miles per hour, ripped the ...

Severe winds from powerful overnight storms that blew through the Western and Northwest suburbs ripped off half the roof of the 101-year-old First United Methodist Church in Elgin. The historic ...

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Officers were at three different crime scenes, and helicopters circled above. Atwater Police Chief Rich McEachin said a man randomly stabbed three people at a bus stop with a sickle. After they ...

An Elgin woman was scammed out of thousands by a fake fraud alert last month. The woman said she had been instructed by someone who claimed to be with her bank to withdraw cash and give it to ...

The Elgin Marbles currently reside in the British Museum, but the Greek government has long called for them to be returned. Talks between Greece and the museum have been ongoing since 2021.

Gregory Bargaineer, 67, was arrested Nov. 18 after turning himself in for the death of Marilyn Janis McEachin, who was found in the back of her house on Shady Trail Drive that same morning.

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