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Elgin Courier News

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

District 300 Food Pantry is using $30,000 grant to fill gap in availability of nutritious food items

Thanks to a $30,000 grant from the Seigle Foundation, the D300 Food Pantry Tuesday morning kicked off an initiative intended to fill a gap in its distribution model.

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St. Charles Business Alliance says fake Holiday Homecoming event information is circulating on Facebook

The business alliance said the fraudulent online event pages can’t be removed “due to Facebook restrictions.”

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Elgin’s Love Thy Neighbor community Thanksgiving dinner is prepping as organizers expect more people

The Love Thy Neighbor community Thanksgiving dinner is back, and the nonprofit organizing it is expecting even more people this year.

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Illinois launching digital driver’s licenses and state IDs on iPhones for airports, restaurants and bars

Illinois residents on Wednesday will be able to add their state driver’s license or state ID to their Apple Wallets. Mobile IDs will expand to Android users by sometime next year.

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Elgin News Digest: Centro de Informacion holiday toy drive; Carpentersville holiday lighting contest; Elgin area seat belt and DUI enforcement

Roundup of small news items for the Elgin area.

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‘My full 100%’: South Elgin’s Matthew Lipp is the 2025 Beacon-News/Courier-News Boys Soccer Player of the Year

South Elgin’s Matthew Lipp, a junior midfielder, will be taking his game to FC Dallas Academy at the semester break.

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Introducing the 2025 Beacon-News/Courier-News Boys Soccer All-Area Team

A pair of players who led Streamwood to the Class 2A third-place finish highlight the first and second teams.

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Rick Armstrong’s high school football rankings and quarterfinal players of the week for Aurora-Elgin area

Batavia maintains top spot in rankings, while red-hot Oswego continues its postseason surge.

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