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‘Lots of oohs and aahs’: More than 20 animatronic dinosaurs take over Gail Borden Library in Elgin

It’s a Jurassic (and Triassic and Cretaceous) world at the Gail Borden Library in Elgin as it prepares to open the new Dinosaur Explorer exhibit this weekend. More than 20 animatronic dinosaurs in ... read more

Elgin News Digest: Elgin library holding Hispanic Heritage Month events; Elgin police hosting Viva Elgin! at Festival Park

The Elgin Police Department is hosting Viva Elgin! from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, in Festival Park, 132 S. Grove Ave. Elgin. The community event will feature music provided by a deejay, food ... read more

Elgin News Digest: Gail Borden library foundation holding book sale; Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour’s Friday finale postponed

The final concert of the Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour stop, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 12, at the First Congregational Church of Elgin, 256 E. Chicago St., has been postponed. First Congregational ... read more

Gail Borden Library celebrates 150th birthday

Hundreds of people crowded the atrium of the Gail Borden Library in Elgin Tuesday to celebrate the local institution’s 150th birthday. “We have the greatest library probably in the state of Illinois ... read more

Gail Borden Public Library celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Gail Borden Public Library in northwest ... read more

Bridges: Gail Borden was Texas revolutionary, innovator in food industry

Success is never a straight line. Gail Borden’s story is how an Indiana farm boy with almost no formal schooling went from being a Texas revolutionary and editor to a celebrated inventor and wildly ... read more

The Press: Borden for Ruppel

Slender, scholarly Gail Borden of Chicago’s Social Register is rarely allowed to forget that the great-granduncle for whom he is named invented condensed milk. Not so well known is the fact that his ... read more