The City of Elgin will celebrate its Sesquicentennial in 2022. As we look forward to a year to commemorate, educate and celebrate in our community, we look forward to sharing retrospectives about the community. The Elgin Courier of December 11, 1941 gives an account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. Many families In Elgin were very distraught because they had men stationed in military bases in the Pacific region. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed a national proclamation of neutrality in 1940 and started increasing the size of the Army and National Guard and enacted the first ...