Council OKs grant to help give Fargo Theatre new life

DeKALB - An Elgin couple with a background in home renovation got a boost Monday for their multiyear project to inject new life into a downtown strip of commercial property dating to the early 1900s. The city council approved a $25,000 grant as part of a $65,000 project to replace the second-floor windows and heating systems in the approximately 75-year-old Fargo Theatre building, 621-649 E. Lincoln Highway. The art-deco-style building is perhaps the most prominent one in the 600 block of East Lincoln Highway. It and the adjacent building on the northwest corner of Lincoln and Seventh Street are owned by Kris and Andrew Besic. "It's really kind of been neglected," Kris Besic said of the property. She and her husband plan to bring the nine-