City of Elgin mayor and council members
- To send an e-mail to all City Council members, click here.
Elgin Links and Online Resources
- The Elgin Area Historical Society & Museum. If you have an old Elgin watch, they will research it for you for a modest fee. They also sponsor the annual Historic Elgin Cemetery Walk on the fourth Sunday in September.
Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce - Elgin Community Network
- Postcards from the Past – a brief history of Elgin
- Kit homes info
- City of Elgin Home Page
- Historic Preservation – City of Elgin website
- Design Guideline Manual City of Elgin website
- Gail Borden Public Library
- Elgin Public Museum
- Fox Valley Trolley Museum
- There Used To Be – A look back at Elgin’s Architectural Heritage
- ABODE -Admirers of Beautiful Old Dwellings of Elgin
- DNA – Downtown Neighborhood Association of Elgin
- SWAN – South West Area Neighbors
- NENA – NorthEast Neighborhood Association of Elgin
- Elgin map from 1880
- Quilt History Stories of Elgin
Links Outside of Elgin
- The Historic Pullman Foundation, Pullman, Illinois. Sponsors of the annual Pullman House Tour. The town of Pullman–on what is now Chicago’s south side–was one of America’s first planned model industrial communities, built during 1880 to 1884 by George M. Pullman to house the workers in his railway car factory.
- Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois
- Landmarks Illinois Calendar of Events
- Chicago Architecture Foundation
- IHPA – Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
- National Trust For Historic Preservation
- National Park Service/Technical Preservation Services including the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards