ELGIN, a city of Kane county, Ill., U.S.A., on the Fox river, 36m. N.W. of Chicago. It is on Federal highway 20, and is served by the Chicago and North Western, the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railways. The population was 33,384 in 1927, when a special census was taken; and was 35,929 in 1930 by the Federal census. Elgin is in a fine dairying region, and has a large trade in butter, cheese and agricultural produce. Water power is abundant, and there are important manufactures (notably watches and watch-cases, con densed milk, butter tubs and meat products), with an aggregate output in 1925 valued at $30,064,803. The Elgin National Watch company employs over 4,000 persons. Three juvenile weeklies with a combined circulation of 750,00o, a popular monthly for Sunday-school teachers, and the books and periodicals of the Brethren (Dunkers) are published in Elgin. It is the seat of the Northern State hospital for the insane. The assessed valuation of property in 1926 was $14,450,473• Elgin was settled in 1835, and chartered as a city in