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.

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there. The Center for Terrorism ...

The crown jewel of El Salvador's aggressive anti-crime strategy — a mega-prison where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed — became the latest tool in U.S. President Donald ...

In exchange, according to federal prosecutors, MS-13 supported the Nuevas Ideas party in the 2021 municipal and legislative elections and kept homicide levels low at least until March 2022, when the ...

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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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Luis Buñuel’s Mexican melodrama about a jealous husband who makes his young wife’s life a living hell opens at Film Forum. By J. Hoberman A blasphemous black comedy, part noir, part case hist ...

A bomb disposal unit has been dispatched to an Asda car park in Elgin after an old unexploded device was discovered on Wednesday. Emergency services were called to the retail park on Edgar Road at ...