Echoes of Elgin: Timeless Tales from the Elgin History Museum

Tune into this echo from July 26, 1998 to hear about a few houses on South, Brook and Morgan Sts., as well as Bluff City and McLean Blvds.  

Have you seen the ornate clock in downtown Chicago?  Not the Marshall Field's clock...the better one!  The Elgin National Watch Company clock on East Wacker Drive, of course.  Tune into this echo from July 25, 1999 and you'll learn enough to educate some Chicagoans on their own clock.

We can never hear too many stories about Elgin's unique homes.  This echo from September 22, 2007 covers a few classes of architecture rarely mentioned.

Do you have freckles, premature old age or diptheria?  Better get yourself a bottle of patent medicine. I would go with the one made in Elgin.  Let Mike Alft prescribe you a remedy in this echo from April 19, 1982.

Spiess and Ackemann's, two Elgin shopping icons, are no more.  Tune in to this echo from July 23, 2001 to hear how these stores rose and fell.

Elgin lost 6 servicemen at the battle for Iwo Jima in 1945.  Historian Mike Alft recounts the tale in this echo from March 26, 1995.

Don't forget to change your clock on Sunday when Daylight Savings Time ends.  If you are tired of the hassle, you really should have voted "No" in the referendum on the topic.  Learn more in this echo from October 25, 1992.

You have heard about Elgin's largest employer, the watch factory, but who was #2?  The Elgin Packing Company was!  Let's hear it for the west side in this echo from December 20, 1982.