Elgin, a city of Illinois, on the Fox River, 36 miles WNW. of Chicago by rail, with large watchworks employing 500 hands, and manufactures of carriages and agricultural machinery. Pop. (1890) 17,429.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 293
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