U-46 School Board tentatively OKs $14 million in contracts needed to build a new Larkin High School sports stadium in Elgin.

Salvation Army Elgin is $35,000 short of its $235,000 Red Kettle goal but hopeful they can make up the difference by month’s end.

Snow showers and patchy blowing snow is expected to continue in the Chicagoland area Wednesday as temperatures fall into the high teens in the night hours, weather officials said.

John Duffy, a 48-year Elgin Community College Board member and longest sitting college board member in Illinois, dead at age 91

Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.

Ayumi Ishikawa finishes one point shy of a career high with 27 points for Streamwood in a 58-43 win over West Aurora.

Getting 24 points from Reese Dumpit, St. Charles East holds off Bartlett 73-59 to snap a 15-game losing streak.

Josh Colaizzi, who underwent emergency eye surgery in Iowa, gets right back into the swing of things for Bartlett.