South Elgin News

A recently released Elgin Area School District U-46 enrollment report gives weight to what some Bartlett parents have been saying for years: Their elementary school is toward the top of the list of those most overcrowded.

While a 53-degree day is a far cry from a "White Christmas," South Elgin's SEBA Park was filled to the brim Saturday with sleigh bells ringing, carolers singing and marshmallows roasting over an open fire during the annual "An Almost Winter Day" holiday festival.

If the challenges to Dan Kairis' nominating petitions prove true, then the Green Party candidate in the 14th Congressional District doesn't know his family and friends very well.

Itago was the South Elgin Police Department's first K-9 officer. And now that the 9-year-old German shepherd has retired, he could be its last for some time.

There is just one Pace bus route through South Elgin now, running from the bus terminal in downtown Elgin to the Charlestowne Mall in St.

A South Elgin man is accused of pulling a hunting knife on a woman he knows, beating her up and robbing her.

Time is running out for Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez and the county board. The time to pay the sheriff department's final 2009 payroll checks is imminent, and a solution to plugging the department's end-of-the-year budget hole seems nowhere in sight.

Clinton Elementary School is going on a trip: Destination Book Fair Read Around the World.

The United Way Board of Directors recently approved a $4,000 donation to the Feeding America/Northern Illinois Food Bank's BackPack Program.

* Drug arrest: Dameion L. Dunn, 22, of 209 National St., Unit #T, was charged with unlawful possession of cannabis after police found marijuana during a traffic stop in the area of Wellington Avenue and National Street Wednesday evening, according to reports.

A sailor at 17, Patricia Devereaux served as a boatswain's mate aboard the repair ship USS Ajax.

ST. CHARLES – A St. Charles man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for dealing cocaine near a church.

Anderson Animal Shelter, 1000 S. LaFox St. , will microchip dogs and cats for at the shelter from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, by appointment only.

St. Charles North beat South Elgin 28-16 in the first round of the Class 7A playoffs Saturday at Streamwood High School.

Two more candidates have filed in the hopes of unseating incumbent Congressman Bill Foster, D-Batavia as the race for the 14th Congressional District heats up.

Back in the 1920s and '30s, an electric trolley ran from Elgin to Aurora and back again.

A teenage runaway is accused of bolting from police Sunday with a backpack full of drugs after stealing more than $400 in merchandise from the South Elgin Best Buy, police said.

School District U46 parents have mixed reactions about state standardized tests.

Don't ban pit bulls, but consider other options. That was the message that Michelle Groeper, director of operations for Anderson Animal Shelter, delivered to the Elgin City Council Wednesday night during the public comment portion of the council's meeting.

Perseverance is something David McFadden of Bartlett said he learned from his dad.