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LoginThe City's ten strategic goals include a safe community, neighborhood vitality, economic growth and diversified tax base, quality housing, and a financially stable city government among others. The Elgin City Council set goals and priorities based on community input. Goals provide the foundation for the community’s future and augment the decision-making process.
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Centennial Activities
Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Burnham’s Chicago for Kids
Gail Borden Public Library District
Daniel Burnham, architect of the 1909 Chicago Plan, leads you through the history of the city he loved so well, from the Fort Dearborn Massacre to the Columbian Exposition of 1893, from stockyards to architecture. Presented by actor Terry Lynch from History for Kids, Burnham introduces the people and events that shaped the “Windy City” and helped transform it from the “City of the Wild Onion” to the “City of the Big Shoulders." [MORE]
Exhibit : Tuesday, May 19, 2009 to Friday, August 28, 2009
Deep Roots, Green Future: City Planning in Elgin
Gail Borden Public Library District
Many principles of the Chicago Plan were used when Burnham’s partner Edward Bennett formulated a plan for Elgin in 1917. Discover this plan and others that followed including the latest Elgin plan for sustainability.
Exhibit Opening will be held Tuesday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m., Gail Borden Public Library. [MORE]
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150 Dexter Ct.
Elgin, IL 60120
847.931.6100
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