Dave Gathman

Elgin U46 OKs tax levy increase; debates kindergarten day, boundaries

May 10, 2019 at 8:34 a.m.

Elgin School District U46 board members voted 5-2 to approve a property tax levy increase, then began tiptoeing further into controversial issues such as starting full-day kindergarten, building additions onto...

Bob Treadwell, president of Elgin Community College's support staff union, says planned changes in custodian scheduling may force some valued, veteran employees to quit their jobs.

Unions protest shift change for Elgin Community College custodians

May 10, 2019 at 8:34 a.m.

More than a year after a heated controversy about outsourcing Elgin Community College's custodians, the college's unions are complaining that proposed shift changes could force some long-term employees to quit...

Elgin Community College students pose for a group photo wearing traditional attire from foreign lands as the college celebrates International Week Monday through Thursday.

ECC celebrates International Week with an eye on Paris

May 10, 2019 at 8:33 a.m.

The terrorist attacks in Paris were on everyone's minds as Elgin Community College began its annual International Week celebration on Monday. Four days of celebrating cultures from around the world...

Elgin-area industrialist James Liautaud lived a fast life — in many ways

May 10, 2019 at 8:33 a.m.

James Liautaud, a bigger-than-life Elgin-area industrialist, inventor and business theorist whose son founded the Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches chain, recently died at age 79, his family has reported. Liautaud, who...

Completed projects in U46 range from parking lots to ‘wireless cable’

May 10, 2019 at 8:33 a.m.

Elgin School District U46 completed almost $16 million worth of repair and expansion work affecting more than half of the schools before the current school year. Christopher Allen, the director...

Members of the citizens advisory council for Elgin School District U46 discuss proposed elementary-school attendance-boundary changes with Committee Co-Chair Roger Wallace.

Only two schools oppose new boundary plan for Elgin School District U46

May 10, 2019 at 8:33 a.m.

The long-debated elementary-school attendance boundary changes in Elgin School District U46 were endorsed overwhelmingly Thursday by U46's full Citizens Advisory Council membership. Only two schools' delegations voted against the plan,...

Elgin Community College teacher Donna Boyce and nursing student Jaime Rohde work with a mannequin named Mark which speaks, emits sounds and gives lifelike reactions to caregivers' mistakes.

Elgin Community College may charge more for nursing courses

May 10, 2019 at 8:33 a.m.

The nursing education program at Elgin Community College is becoming very popular, attracting more applicants than it can accept, college officials said. But it is also becoming so expensive to...

Elgin Community College Trustee Jeff Meyer, third from left, listens as President David Sam responds to his complaints about a proposed real estate tax increse.

New Elgin Community College trustee tries to freeze operating-tax levy

May 10, 2019 at 8:33 a.m.

Elected on an anti-taxing platform last April, Elgin Community College trustee Jeff Meyer cast the lone vote on the board this week against asking for a higher operating-tax levy to...

Survivors of Elgin-connected WWII ship gather for last time

May 10, 2019 at 8:32 a.m.

Their sacrifice 70 years ago this spring is marked by an anchor on display in Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin. But no longer will the survivors of the World War...

A color guard from the South Elgin Police Department presents the flag during the Veterans Day assembly at Kenyon Woods Middle School Wednesday.

Elgin-area schools celebrate veterans with speakers, contests, music

May 10, 2019 at 8:33 a.m.

Several years ago, Elgin School District U46 decided to stop giving students the day off on Veterans Day. At Kenyon Woods Middle School in South Elgin, teacher Andy Kerwin —...

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