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Belinda Carlisle performs Sunday in Elgin's Festival Park as part of the Grand Victoria Casino's Summer Concert Series.

Smash Mouth singer returns for Elgin concert; joins former Go-Go’s singer Belinda Carlisle

May 10, 2019 at 10:49 a.m.

Smash Mouth canceled two shows last week after lead singer Steve Harwell was hospitalized, according to billboard.com. Harwell was in Elgin Sunday evening. "This is the last show of our...

Carl Palmer, of Emerson, Lake & Palmer fame, performs Saturday in Elgin's Festival Park during Yestival, part of the Grand Victoria Casino Summer Concert Series.

Superstars of ’70s music rock Elgin’s Festival Park

May 10, 2019 at 10:47 a.m.

Festival Park in Elgin was packed and the weather cooperated as three hitmakers of 1970s rock took the stage during Yestival, part of the Grand Victoria Casino Summer Concert Series....

Gunnar Nyblad, lead singer for Gunnar and the Grizzly Boys, performs Saturday at Festival Park in Elgin.

Elgin celebrates Fourth of July with country music, fireworks

May 10, 2019 at 10:38 a.m.

As Gunnar and the Grizzly Boys kicked off the Grand Victoria Casino concert season Saturday at Elgin's Festival Park, lead singer Gunnar Nyblad offered the crowd a way to remember...

A bronze plaque honoring Elgin resident Floyd Brown has been added to the WGN Radio Walk of Fame in Chicago.

Floyd Brown joins radio legends on WGN Walk of Fame

May 10, 2019 at 9:10 a.m.

Elgin resident Floyd Brown and six other radio legends were inducted into the WGN Radio Walk of Fame as highlights of their careers filled the airwaves and the air, broadcast...

Judi Brownfield talks to a customer before closing Books at Sunset in Elgin for the final time Saturday night.

Closing the book

May 10, 2019 at 8:42 a.m.

It's the end of an era for a used bookstore on Elgin's west side. "We locked the door for the last time tonight," said Judi Brownfield as she closed Books...

A worker loads electronics into a truck at the Kane County Recycling Extravaganza in St. Charles Saturday as 63 vehicles carried out recycled electronics, books, fluorescent lights, clothes, packing peanuts, bubble wrap, more than 30,000 pounds of shredded confidential documents, 20 bikes, a couple wheelchairs and some crutches.

Recycling event an extravaganza

May 10, 2019 at 7:59 a.m.

More than 2,100 cars went through the Kane County Recycling Extravaganza in St. Charles on Saturday. "It was one of the best events ever," said Jennifer Jarland, Kane County's Recycling...

No bond for man charged in Elgin high-speed chase

May 10, 2019 at 7:23 a.m.

An Elgin man who led police on a high-speed chase Sunday morning ultimately crashed his car.At 10:46 a.m., police responded to a call of a person waving a gun from...

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