Schrunks So Grateful
Schrunks talk about community support.
Editor’s Note: This continues a series of monthly articles celebrating pride in our town and its surroundings shown through the...
Museum hopes to educate public on water
It started with an Elgin family’s bathtub, one that had been in the family for decades, and it led to a major new exhibit...
Merry Christmas from Elgin!
'For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.'… That's what Christmas is all...
Elgin Letters to Santa 2023
Elgin Letters to Santa 2023
Elementary students from our Elgin schools took time to pen letters to Santa. Here is the two-page spread that appeared...
Elgin Show & Shine and Treasures in the Park
The early morning rain may have kept some cars and some vendors from the Elgin City Park on Sunday but the shoppers and lookers...
City, Bud’s Sanitation enter into new contract
Bud’s Sanitation, in the process of changing how they pick up trash in the city limits, had their application for a new five-year contract...
Review to celebrate ‘Community Newspaper Week’ with open house
1920“We’re having a party!”
One hundred and forty years in the making, The Elgin Review is having an open house on Thursday, June 29.
The public...
Trash collection change for Elgin
Trash collection in Elgin will be changing in the very near future. Bud's Sanitary Service will be converting over to a toter system for...
Payne family an example of pride in community and country
By Jane Schuchardt
Special to the Elgin Review
PAYNE PROUD of country and community. With certainty, that could be the slogan for Elgin’s own three-generation United...
State Track & Golf
State Track and Golf competitions will be seeing a few EPPJ Wolfpack faces this year!
Track athletes are competing this Friday and Saturday at Burke...
Pope John (PJCC) Class of 2023
Nine Pope John XXIII Central Catholic High School (PJCC) seniors received their diplomas during Sunday afternoon's graduation ceremony held at the St. Boniface Auditorium. ...
Elgin High School (EHS) Class of 2023
Fifteen Elgin High School (EHS) seniors received their diplomas plus one student was presented her Certificate of Participation at last Saturday's graduation ceremony held...
Meis finds joy restoring vintage motorcycles
By Jane Schuchardt
Special to The Elgin Review
Vroom. Vroom. That’s the sound of a revved-up motorcycle ready to hit the road. Many riders crave the...
Way Out West 4-H Club Grows Leaders
By Jane Schuchardt
Special to The Elgin Review
The Way Out West Club, 27 years strong this fall, is on-the-ground, local proof that 4-H, the largest...
Miller’s music students top 1,000
NOTEWORTHY – a perfectly-pitched word to describe Patricia “Pat” Miller, formerly of Elgin. She is worthy of a standing ovation because of how notes,...
Dream becoming a reality for Simonsen with cedar canoe
Though, by design, his prized creation has no keel, even-keeled best describes Jens Simonsen as he speaks eloquently about a dream come true.
Simonsen, who...
Schmitt announces retirement
By Jessie Reestman
Staff writer
Mike Schmitt was fourteen years old when he first began working summers in the field of construction, watching, learning and developing...
2022 Letters to Santa
Letters to Santa, 2022
Students from Elgin Public Elementary and St. Boniface Elementary schools shared their Letters to Santa with the Elgin Review. Here are...
