Hello, ECC community. Today, I’m going to do a review on a well-known place called Kuma’s Corner which is a heavy metal themed restaurant. They have four locations of which three of them are in the Chicagoland area and one in Indiana which is their first location outside of Illinois. The location...

A police chief is in charge of the entire police department. That is not typically a person who also has a second job, but the police chief here in Elgin does. Ana Lalley has been Chief of the Elgin Police Department since July 2018, having been with the department overall since March 1996. She is...

Have you ever wanted to take a time machine and travel back to the past? Play some classic 90’s and 80’s arcade machines with your pals? Listen to the hit songs of the bygone era on a classic jukebox? Or maybe even just go on a trip down memory lane? Well, they haven't invented a time machine...

Elgin Community College’s Wellness Services Office has hired two new Wellness professionals, who started on Nov. 11, 2023. They are joining the two Wellness professionals who currently work at ECC.  According to Associate Dean of Student Success Peggy Gundrum, the newly hired Wellness professionals...

After five years of setbacks, Chief of Police David Kintz is finally ready to bring on a conversation between the Elgin Community Police Department and the ECC community, which would culminate at an event revolving around the Ten Shared Principles. The Ten Shared Principles are a list of agreements...

Elgin Observer’s newspaper was announced as a recipient of multiple Pinnacle Awards presented by the The College Media Association and Pacemaker Awards presented by the Associated Collegiate Press. Winners were announced on Oct. 30 and Oct. 31 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the annual National College Media...