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.

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 ...

It could be a scene from a local tennis club anywhere in the world. Except that Hana Mandlikova is no run-of-the-mill coach - she's a former star of the game, once ranked No 3 in the world ...

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.

Uncertainty over health research funding is prompting the elite Baylor College of Medicine to scale back plans to expand the university’s research efforts and to reduce its incoming graduate ...

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.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Texas Tech basketball team survived a scare from Baylor to survive their first game of the Big 12 tournament, winning the quarterfinal 76-74 on Thursday night in the T ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2025 NCAA Tournament is here, folks. First-round action continues Friday and a matchup between Mississippi State and Baylor in the East Region gets things started. Mississippi State ranks as ...