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    Elgin (/ˈɛldʒɪn/ EL-jin) is a city in Cook and Kane counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located 35 mi (56 km) northwest of Chicago along the...
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    Elgin is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 23,865. In 2007, Money magazine named South Elgin...
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    Elgin Academy is an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory school in Elgin, Illinois, United States. Elgin Academy is notable for many accomplishments...
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    watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin. For nearly 100 years, the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was the world's largest...
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  • Elgin High School, or EHS, is a public four-year high school located in Elgin, Illinois, an American city 40 mi. (63.5 km) northwest of Chicago. It is...
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  • Elgin Community College (ECC) is a public community college in Elgin, Illinois. It was founded in 1949 as part of Elgin Area School District U46. Community...
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    The Elgin Mental Health Center (formerly Elgin State Hospital & the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane) is a mental health facility...
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    202-mile-long (325 km) tributary of the Illinois River, flowing from southeastern Wisconsin to Ottawa, Illinois in the United States. The Wisconsin section...
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    of people from Elgin, Illinois List of people from Aurora, Illinois Carpentersville, Illinois§Notable residents East Dundee, Illinois§Notable residents...
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  • streets Elgin, Alabama Elgin, Arizona Elgin, Illinois Elgin station (Illinois), a train station Elgin, Iowa Elgin, Kansas Elgin, Minnesota Elgin (Natchez...
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    The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary...
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    line between Chicago and Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, and Elgin, Illinois. The railroad also operated a small branch to Mt. Carmel Cemetery in...
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    vernacular region that is situated between the large cities of Aurora and Elgin, Illinois, and encompasses the cities of Batavia, Geneva, and St. Charles. A...
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    Elgin is one of three stations on Metra's Milwaukee District West Line in Elgin, Illinois. The station is 36.6 miles (58.9 km) away from Chicago Union...
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  • The Grand Victoria Casino Elgin is a riverboat casino in Elgin, Illinois, United States, located about 40 mi (64 km) west of Chicago. It is owned and operated...
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  • The Elgin Road Races were a series of automobile races that took place on closed public roads in Elgin, Illinois between 1910 and 1920. The races were...
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  • Lauren Zima (category People from Elgin, Illinois)
    producer and host at Entertainment Tonight. Zima was raised in Elgin, Illinois, graduated from Elgin High School, and studied journalism at the University of...
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  • Elgin Area School District U46, often referred to as "U-46", is a unit school district headquartered in Elgin, Kane County, Illinois. Covering 90 square...
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  • Judson University is a private Baptist university in Elgin, Illinois. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. Judson was formed out of...
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    municipality Aerial view of downtown Elgin, Illinois' 6th most populous municipality Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois' capital city and 7th most...
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    DuPage County, Illinois (924,885) Grundy County, Illinois (52,989) McHenry County, Illinois (311,122) Will County, Illinois (697,252) Elgin, IL Metropolitan...
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    Kevin Martin (American musician) (category People from Elgin, Illinois)
    for the bands The Gracious Few and The Hiwatts. Martin was born in Elgin, Illinois. His father worked for a salt company and the family moved to San Antonio...
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  • South Elgin High School (SEHS), opened August 24, 2005, is a four-year high school located in South Elgin, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois...
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    Illinois Route 390 (IL 390), previously known as the Elgin–O'Hare Expressway, now known as the Elgin–O'Hare Tollway, is a 9.8-mile (15.8 km) controlled-access...
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    former route of US 20 in Elgin, Illinois. The route began as Villa Street at a junction with US 20 Elgin Bypass in Southeast Elgin. Following Villa Street...
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    Darse Crandall (category People from Elgin, Illinois)
    Service Command from September 12, 2018 to August 18, 2021. Raised in Elgin, Illinois, Crandall earned a B.A. degree in economics from Northwestern University...
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    Bruce Boxleitner (category People from Elgin, Illinois)
    Boxleitner was born on May 12, 1950, in Elgin, Illinois. He attended Prospect High School in Mount Prospect, Illinois, and the Goodman School of Drama at...
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  • Leewards Creative Crafts (category Defunct companies based in Illinois)
    Leewards, was an American crafts and fabrics retailer. It was founded in Elgin, Illinois, in 1947. The chain had approximately 87 stores at its peak. In 1994...
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  • Michael Hubert Kenyon, (born c. 1944 in Elgin, Illinois) also known as the "Illinois Enema Bandit", is an American criminal. He pleaded guilty to a decade-long...
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  • Female Institute Judson College (Mount Palatine, Illinois) (1846–1860) Judson University, Elgin, Illinois, called Judson College until 2007 Judson College...
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