Elgin Museum wins $19,000 in grant awards

The Elgin Museum and Historical Society is among five nonprofit recipients in Union County that received grant funding in the fall cycle of Oregon Community Foundation grants. The five Union County ...

Elgin News Digest: Elgin Public Museum reopens Sunday with new exhibits; Carpentersville promotes Kevin Stankowitz to police chief

New exhibits on Native American basketry, Elgin’s Jewish community and items seized at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport will open, the children’s discovery room has been refreshed, and a new ...

Elgin News Digest: ‘Evening with Paul Lisnek’ watch party at Dundee Library; nominations being taken for Elgin’s preservation awards

Lisnek’s talk will kick off the 2026 Civic Awareness Series, a program being presented by the League of Women Voters of the Palatine, Schaumburg and Barrington Areas and various Illinois libraries ...
Daily Herald

St. Charles History Museum helps register first underground railroad safe house in Kane County.

The St. Charles History Museum recently announced that the Joseph P. Bartlett Farm in Campton Township has been officially ...
KPBS

This El Cajon museum takes visitors back to the frontier days of the Old West

The Olaf Wieghorst Museum & Western Heritage Center features works of one of the most acclaimed western artists, and much ...