The Elgin Public Museum has been a staple in the city for more than a century, but like other area nonprofits, it’s struggling because of the economic downturn. And museum officials say if things don’t get better, they may have to close its doors. The city, which owns the building and the museum’s collections from before 1983, used to pay the museum upward of $100,000 every year, but that number…

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Will the Elgin Public Museum be history?