Elgin ranked No. 5 for best place to live in Illinois by U.S. News & World Report

Elgin ranked No. 5 for best place to live in Illinois by U.S. News & World Report

Steve Thoren, known locally as “Mr. Elgin,” has always known his hometown is a great place to live, and now everyone else knows it as well thanks to U.S. News & World Report listing the city as No. 5 on its annual Best Places to Live in Illinois. Nationally, Elgin also came in at No. 122 on the magazine’s 250 Best Places to Live in the U.S. based on an evaluation that considers everything from affordability and quality of life to job market stre…