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It is bordered to the north and east by the village of West Dundee and to the south and west by the city of Elgin. According to the 2010 census, Sleepy Hollow has a total area of 2.026 square miles (5.25 km 2 ), of which 2 square miles (5.18 km 2 ) (or 98.72%) is land and 0.026 square miles (0.07 km 2 ) (or 1.28%) is water.
Sherman Hospital opened on July 7, 1888, [5] in a two-story Elgin house donated by local drug store owner and prominent businessman, Henry Sherman. There were four beds and one operating room. After numerous additions between 1895 and 1999, the hospital had grown to 353 beds. Advocate Sherman's first open-heart surgery was performed in 1972.
The Elgin Academy, independently listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), was completed in 1856. Gail Borden, Jr., the inventor of condensed milk, opened the world's largest condensed milk factory in the world in the 1860s. Elgin's first bank, the First National Bank of Elgin, was founded in 1865.
Elgin Township is located in Kane County, Illinois. It is divided by the Fox River . As of the 2010 census, its population was 100,922 and it contained 35,690 housing units.
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Elgin Mental Health Center also serves as a training site for Psychiatry Residents from Chicago Medical School and Loyola University. As of the end of fiscal year 2008, Elgin had 759.5 employees and an appropriation of $66,251,900. [24] As of 2002, Elgin had 582 beds, 40 physicians, 163 registered nurses, and 67 medical social workers.
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