Welcome to PP’s July edition post! We hope you and yours had a great 4th of July holiday. Let us dive right in this month, shall we? INTRO: In this post we are researching Stewart Hall. […]
Tag: Elgin
St. John’s Lutheran Church
So much has happened since our last post. Surely I could go into great detail, but I think I will be coy and mysterious. You can’t see it, but I just winked. More regular posts to begin […]
Klinger Saloon – 107 E. Highland Ave
In 1885 Elgin voted in a new Mayor by a stark landslide. Henry B. Willis beat his opponent Frank B. Parkins by taking in 71.8% of the vote, securing 1,370 to Parkins’ 537. It marked […]
First Universalist Church of Elgin
Hello intrepid blog readers! We are already on our third installment of Blog 2.0…we’re just growing up so fast. Next thing you know we’ll be going through our rebellious teenage years and only post new […]
Fire Station 5
Blog 2.0 number 2. Thanks to everyone who read, shared and (just guessing, totally not hyperbolizing) fell madly in love with this blog. I think blogging here in Elgin is going to be a wonderful […]
Elgin Watch Factory Observatory
Welcome to Blog 2.0. While in many ways this is still the same Pedaling Preservation — for instance the jokes are still bad and mine — some things are going to be different. First, as […]
East 7th Avenue Historic District
Greetings December and the small handful of people who read my blog! It’s that time of year again, time for me to watch Home Alone and Home Alone 2 as many times as I can […]
Pedaling Preservation 