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Elgin and the Stimulus plan

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

So how did Elgin fare in the Stimulus plan.  Pretty well it seems. According to the website Stimulus watch, Elgin has some bigtime road construction on the way. Here are some of the projects that got funded:

Riverside Drive Deck Replacement Elgin IL 80 $11,000,000 Streets/Roads -6
Neighborhood Street Rehabilitation Elgin IL 100 $10,000,000 Streets/Roads -1
Spartan Drive Reconstruction Elgin IL 30 $3,000,000 Streets/Roads 0
Villa Street Resurfacing/Rechannelization Elgin IL 30 $3,000,000 Streets/Roads +1
South Street Reconstruction Elgin IL 20 $1,500,000 Streets/Roads 0
Big Timber Road Resurfacing Elgin IL 20 $1,000,000 Streets/Roads 0
Kimball Street Resurfacing Elgin IL 12 $500,000 Streets/Roads 0
McLean Blvd Resurfacing Elgin IL 12 $500,000 Streets/Roads 0
Airlite Treatment Plant Rehabilitation Elgin IL 100 $14,000,000 Water -1
Highland Combined Sewer Seperation Elgin IL 35 $4,500,000 Water +1
Kimball Street Dam Repairs Elgin IL 30 $2,000,000 Water -1
Route 20 Watermain Construction Elgin IL 35 $2,000,000 Water +1

You can check out how your city was affected on the site as well.

CoWorking Space in Elgin

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Does Elgin IL need a coworking space?  I would like to think so. There is a small tech community in Elgin that is growing. I can’t help to think that most of these people work out a home office.

What is coworking:

Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents.

Or, it’s like this: start with a shared office and add cafe culture. Which is the opposite of most modern cafes. ;)

To prevent spam, we have a password on this wiki. It is coworking with the two “o”s being zeroes!

Welcome, have a look around! The best places to get started are right below:

 http://coworking.pbwiki.com/

I think it would be really neat to have a space like this in Downtown Elgin.  Anyone want to help me put one together?


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