Map of Elgin 1917Plan of Elgin prepared for Elgin Commercial Club by E. H. Bennett, Consulting Architect in January 1917. "The purpose of the Elgin City Plan is to provide a systematic method for Elgin's social, aesthetic and economic development, which, if carried out, will create for the community the maximum of health, happiness and efficiency; to crystallize public sentiment on the improvements suggested, and thereafter to bring about through education and cooperation the accomplishment of the recommendations" -- from p. 7
