Looking for the perfect baby gift? 

Special Delivery Baby Shop is a great specialty baby shop featuring the unusual, the custom made, out of the ordinary baby gifts, clothing, bedding, furniture, strollers, and much much more! We are confident that we...

Was wondering if anyone knew why new members are not being accepted.  I have known a few people trying to get on and were rejected. Anyone?

Community Message has been issued by the Elgin, IL Police Department.

I poked around the new website for a little while this morning and it's pretty cool how you can filter the different categories and get the stats etc.


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Sign looks good now that is it fixed and repainted.

I really hope it stays that way. 

Don't know how to quote- but actually, I thought the lights looked much brighter.  I  could see the sign from Randall when going over the bridge.  There are now 7 lights on the sign.

Mortgage rates have held steady over the past week even though the volatilty remains and this could turn on a dime so we have to be very careful.

Hopefully everything is going well...and let me know what I can do to help!

Thanks and have a great weeken...

Last night I did a class at Fusion Fitness MMA on Mclean in Elgin. My wife had set up a play date with one of the owners daughters and we started chatting about his passion for jujitsu. Glynn has bee...

The other day I took a walk behind the sign and found an empty bottle of bright pink/red "Primo Gold" brand bingo marker.  Anyone know of any bingo players in the area who have teens?  I doubt that grandma would want to waste her bingo marker to vandal...

If they made the lights brighter and found a way to keep them lit and prevent vandalism to the lights, I think we wouldn't have seen all this stuff happening to the sign. 

I think they changed the spot lights on the front sign to 4 smaller landscapte lights vs the original larger high powered spot light.  Does not look very good and most of light is lost in bushes on ground. Was the original light also damaged in all the...

sign was all fixed up today...lets hope it still looks good in the morning!   

My son is 9 and yes, he is totally into cash/gift cards/i tunes cards! Even tho I still feel kinda funny giving the same stuff to his friends (even when he says, "that's totally what they want, Mom!") LOL! So I try to get creative with the "cash" - fre...

I have 2 boys, and they both LOVE getting cash or gift cards.  Then they can go and pick out what they want, and pay for it themselves.  Does this child like Chuck E Cheese?  You can get a gift card from there, or a bookstore giftcard.  Even a Toy's R ...

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Every time my son is invited to a birthday party I struggle to find a really good gift.  How many presents/toys does your child get that ends up untouched?  I thought maybe you'd like to share here some really great gifts/toys your child has received (...

Elgin has partnered with a private organization to participate in the Legacy Tree Project.

A new Walmart Superstore will open in Elgin by the fall of 2011.

The City is working with construction contractors to ensure competion of Elgin projects by the end of 2010.

The International Latino Cultural Center (ILCC) in partnership with the City of Elgin, is proud to present another edition of CINE EN EL PARQUE / FILM IN THE PARK 2010 summer series on Wednesday, August 25, in Festival Park.

The City of Elgin wants input on how to best advance your neighborhood and the City.

Do you have ideas for improving conditions for bicyclists and walkers in Elgin?

The City of Elgin has added more concerts to the “Concert in the Park” Series, kicking off this Tuesday, June 15th and continuing through August 13th.

To offer Elgin residents more free fun this summer, the City of Elgin Special Events Office presents “Movies in the Park”, a new weekly series of family friendly films.

GENEVA – Kane County must cut its health department budget and staff as proposed in order to maintain its cash flow required for its core services, officials said.

Were you in Elgin last night and wondered why there were a bunch of squad cars in a certain area? Now, you can pull up a website and find out why.

It has come to our attention that "Big Brother 12" contestant Matt Hoffman was one of the average Joes on NBC's "Average Joe: The Joes Strike Back." Matt's NBC bio for the show: Matt Hoffman Residence : Elgin, IL Occupation : Online courseware developer Marital Status : Single Biography Matt Hoffman is an online courseware developer from Elgin, IL.

We all remember the consternation when Sergei Makarov took home the NHL's 1990 rookie award at age 31.

Since the spring, Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley has embarked on an aggressive schedule of 20 home rehabs to celebrate its 20th year of helping provide affordable housing for those in need.

Two medical groups that long have served the Fox Valley are opening new clinics about a block away from one another next week.

Art and Soul: Art and Soul on the Fox -- a juried art show, live music, theater performers and other arts-related activities -- returns 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 31 and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug.

The deadline for responding to Elgin's online biking and walking survey is Saturday.

Kevin Echevarria knows the sting of racism all too well. He recounts a story in which a white man entered the Puerto Rican restaurant Echevarria co-owns with his father, Pedro, in Elgin and proceeded to ask whether he serves the Mexican dish burritos.

Shame on you for your inflammatory, half-truth headline regarding the Elgin City Council's vote to restore the oldest building in Elgin.

Jim Daffron is a former Burlington Village Board member, School District U46 advisory board member and head church elder.

The Forest Preserve District of Kane County has closed two trails in Elgin and South Elgin - one because of flooding and other due to construction.

What do a casino, a university and a hospital have in common? Answer: They're all places that serve food to large numbers of people.

Elgin leaders this week gave the thumbs-up to waiving $53,720 in development impact fees so the Siemens plant at 950 Tollgate Road can expand by 28,000 square feet.

Although economic conditions have put Elgin's annual FoxFireFest on hold until next year, the silver lining has been an expanded arts celebration that will take place this weekend.

East Dundee officials and local political leaders say a bill signed into law last week will boost economic development along Route 25 at just the right time.

The emotional roller coaster in Elgin Area School District U-46's fight for state funding appears to have come to a screeching halt.

With promises from CEOs of private health care providers that they can handle the resultant added caseload, Kane County's plan to downsize its health department appears to be back on the fast track.

Mad Maggies 51 S. Grove 847-531-5883 http://www.madmaggies.net/ Thursday, July 29 Unveiling Chaos with Of Beast & Martyrs Cover: $7 21 & Over Doors: 7:30pm Show: 8:00pm Friday, July 30 Unwritten Truth with Among the Flood $8.00 All Ages Doors: 6:00pm Show: 6:30pm Basement Show Saturday, July 31 Danny and the Devils with Universal Slim and the Blue ...

In the wake of the recently ended laborers strike, Elgin city engineer Joe Evers is cautiously optimistic that most construction projects being done on the city's dime will be completed by October.