Talk:Elgin, Illinois

message: According to http://www.elginpublicmuseum.org/lordspark.htm, Lord's Park is 409 acres.
:The main page of the Elgin Public Museum website says 109, which seems about right. Wachholder0 20:38, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Size of Lords Park

message: Why does the racial makeup add up to much more than 100? It isn't made clear on the page and I don't think anyone wants to go through that 60 page pdf to find out.
:The US Census category for Hispanics includes both black and white people of Hispanic descent. Wachholder0 20:35, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Racial Makeup

message: Wasn't he from South Elgin (but an EHS grad)?
From what I understand he grew up in S Elgin but now lives in Elgin.
 Says he was born in Elgin.  Likely, because the hospitals were here! BenBurch 07:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Brian Oldfield

message: Does anyone have objections to these sections being removed?
:No. Please remove it. WP is not the place for survey results and other raw data. Wachholder 01:52, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Elgin promotional campaign and 2007 survey results

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message: My suggestion. Thx
Add text to describe and highlight the Plainstones. Add hyperlink.
A more spacious market area for traders was created when the Plainstones were laid out in 1787. However, it wasn’t until 1851 that, with the building of the New Market, traders had the benefit of a covered market.
https://www.bestofmorayspeyside.com/castle-to-cathedral-to-cashmere/ Killoh (talk) 03:37, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plainstones 

message: The reference I am talking about is #7.  The sentence sounded clumsy to me.  I checked a grammar checker and it says the is written in passive voice, meaning it is clumsy.  
Instead of: 
The watch factory employed three generations of Elginites from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, when it was the largest producer of fine watches in the United States (the factory ceased production in 1965 and was torn down in the summer of 1966) and the operator of the largest watchmaking complex in the world.
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From the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, the watch factory employed three generations of Elginites. During this time, it was the world's largest watchmaking complex and the largest producer of fine watches in the United States (production ended in 1965, and the factory was demolished in the summer of 1966). 
QuillBot AI Easeltine (talk) 13:17, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consider this sentence change, and reference no long available