Security to Improve at Elgin City Hall
Byline: Elena Ferrarin eferrarin@dailyherald.com
Elgin's city hall will be getting a security makeover.
The city council voted Wednesday night to award a $375,000 bid to Chicago-based general contractor F.H. Paschen to perform work including renovating the city council chambers and adding security measures such as a bulletproof dais, cameras, a metal detector at the entrance of city hall, protective concrete installations outside city hall, and more.
The work inside the council chambers will be done over Presidents Day weekend in February, when court will not be in session, city officials said.
The goal is to provide "the right security" for …
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Article title: Security to Improve at Elgin City Hall.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL).
Publication date: January 24, 2013.
Page number: 4.
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