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Table of Contents
1 ELGIN
NAMES
Elgin's
History on Signs
Other
Elgins
Street
Names
School
Names
Vanished
Names
2 MEMORABLE
EVENTS
The
Grave Robbers
Parade
of the Horribles
Buffalo
Bill
The
Mysterious Airship
Street
Carnivals
The
Guardsmen
The
Poultry Show
The
Blizzard of '18
Miss
Elgin of 1925
The
Crusader
3 FOX
RIVER
The
Dam
The
Great Flood of '81
Ice
Harvesting
The
Truesdell Bridge
A
Bridge of Sorts
The
Carrie Clark Hole
Goff's
Island
Steamers
and the Pearl Rush
Using
the River
4 ANIMAL
FRIENDS
Horsing
Around
Cow
Town
Some
Lions and an Elephant
5 VETERANS
Memorial
Day
The
Last Leaf
The
Old Reb
Maje
The
General
Foes
and Comrades
6 FAMILY
TIES
Father
and Son
Rovelstads
Everywhere
Hoaglands
The
Halls
Cedar
Hill
Wings
The
Adams Family
Forces
The
House on Highland
The
Bowling Westermans
7 GOOD
OLD DAYS?
The
Working Day
Epidemics
Medicine
Men
Expectorating
Get
a Horse
Boys
Fourth
of July
The
Black List
All
the News
The
Poor House
So
What Else Is New?
8 THE
UNEXPECTED
Predictions
The
Washburne Marriage
Buster
Brown's House
9 IMMIGRANTS
& COLONISTS
Hanoverians
from Winzlar
English
Watchmakers
Jewish
Clothiers
Elgin
Colonies
10 THE
SPORTING LIFE
The
Bluff Citys of '75
Sparrows
and Crows
The
Driving Park
Walking
Kittens
and Pirates
Cycling
Schneider's
Skating
The
Loss to West
The
Rat Hole
Pushmobiles
11 ELGINITES
The
Record Keeper
Inventors
Poets
The
Accident Man
Grace
Topping
Dr.
Mann
Two
Graves
Virtue
Is Its Own Reward
Footnotes
to History
Arthur
Newsome
Off
Beats
Who's
Who
Lloyd
A. Hall
Kid
Abbott
Gilbert
M. Turnbull
Some
Remarkable Women
The
Non-Resident
12 LANDMARKS
GONE
The
Opera House
The
Old Creamery
Grand
Hotels
Private
Schools
Cook's
Whistle
The
Airport
Horse
Cars
The
Arc Light Towers
The
Gas Works
13 NEIGHBORS
Dundee
Spaulding
Almora
Aurora
Carpentersville
14 MUSIC
MAKERS & ARTISTS
The
E.N.W.F.M.B.
Hawaiian
Guitars
Pianos
and Organs
Two
Artists
Tryg
15 CRIMINAL
ACTS
Cupid's
Corner
Preston
Reduction
The
First 100 Homicides
The
Rippberger Collapse
16 CELEBRITIES
AND PRESIDENTS
Famous
Visitors
Lincoln
Never Slept Here
Elgin's
Favorites
Presidential
Visits
17 ALL
KINDS OF DWELLINGS
Introduction
Concrete
Block Homes
Kit
Houses
Garabungalows
Steel
Houses
18 POLITICOS
The
Mayors
The
Township Collectors
The
Pols and the Press
20 CLUBS
The
Riverside
Odd
Fellows
The
Old Clothes Club
The
Elgin Motor Club
The
Y
21 BOUNDARY
LINES
Across
the County Line
The
Buckrice Case
Cook
and Kane
School
Districts
22 IT
TAKES TIME
Daylight
Savings
The
East Side North Western
Highway
58
Dancing
Salvationists
and Witnesses
23 MADE
IN ELGIN
The
Automatics
House
of Corrections
Malted
Milk
Voting
Machines
Miniature
Trains
Coffee
Mills
Chewing
Gum
Windmills
Butter
Tubs
24 AROUND
TOWN
Gifford
Park
Geneva
Street Hollow
Walton
Island
South
Grove
Town
Clocks
Smitty's
The
Post Office
The
Henrietta
Oak
Crest
The
Observatory
The
Shoe Factory
Douglas
Avenue
Parochial
Schools
Old
Main
25 THE
END
Undertakers
Coffin
Hardware and Caskets
Old
Cem and Bluff City