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. As we enter another election year (2022), the majority of Elginites are probably unaware that from 1902 to 1966, the ability to vote hinged on the payment of a poll tax. Today, having to pay a tax in order to vote seems un-American and contrary to what is stated in the United States Constitution. Clearly, the poll tax was a form of voter suppression: a strategy used ...