Q-town

ELGIN — A historical marker, identifying the site of the famous Illinois Watch Case Co./Simpson Electric building that was torn down last year, has gone missing. Whoever pulled the sign from the site — likely believing the cast-aluminum sign to be made of the more valuable bronze or copper — was probably disappointed if attempting to sell it as scrap metal. […]

ELGIN – On a quiet Friday morning at Elgin Community College, Jerry Sanders of Carpentersville was practicing starting an IV. Sanders, a nursing student, tied a blue band around the rubber arm on a table in one of the nursing classrooms in the community college’s Health and Life Sciences Building. He poked the needle into its latex veins, and red-colored wat […]

ELGIN — Two Elgin youths have been charged with attempted murder, accused of taking part in a stabbing in a west-side parking lot Saturday night, police announced Wednesday. Police said the stabbing grew out of a fight involving about 17 people motivated by gang tensions. Andres Quinones, 17, of the 0-100 block of South Aldine Street, and Alexzayan D. Leon, […]

Jeff Reynolds has seen some pretty amazing sights atop some of the world’s most remote and challenging mountains, often with just a few close friends. In March through May, the 1983 Larkin High School graduate and Elgin native — along with just four experienced mountaineers in his group — is set see the top of the world when the group scales Mount Everest. A […]