Time has run out for a clock business that’s been part of the Naperville community for more than 25 years. Elgin Clock Repair closed Saturday and has moved all repairs to its South Elgin headquarters.

Nigel Barnes, a fifth-generation horologist, acknowledges that it is a “tall order” to learn to fix a clock in two days. But some manage it, he said. Nigel Barnes working with Seán Martin, who had ...

“There’s not many of us around anymore,” LaBounty said. “The modern generation is less and less interested in restoring something. They throw it away and get something new.” Clock repairers share a ...