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Add a late entry to your 2025 resolution list: see more theater! It shouldn't be difficult to follow through with a lineup of notable productions on tap nearby. Local stages are continuing their 2024-25 seasons with productions ranging from hit musicals to comedies, and from romance to whodunit. Book your seat now, and enjoy the show! • "Disney's The Little Mermaid" continues its run through Sunday, Jan. 12, at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace. Dive b...
Almost 300 new laws took effect in Illinois as of Jan. 1, including ones governing how citizens get IDs, what information is included in job postings and how people can cancel gym memberships. Here some of the changes that Hinsdale residents should be aware of, including ones co-sponsored by the village’s General Assembly lawmakers, with contributing reporting by Capitol News Illinois. The state’s minimum wage is now $15, completing a six-year ramp-up initiated during Gov. JB Pritzker’s first month in office in 2019. Also in...
The Interim Housing Center lobby in Downers Grove gradually filled with children and parents Dec. 19 as DuPage PADS held its annual Christmas party, complete with Santa and Mrs. Claus, to spread cheer among the county’s under-resourced population. April Redzic, president and CEO of DuPage PADS, said there are currently about 300 residents at the center, one-third of them children. “Everyone’s welcome to come see Santa, but our younger ones probably get most excited,” Redzic...
Hinsdale's Daphne Sheldon has made an impression during her first year in the world. Daphne, 8 months, captured best costume honors at the Hinsdale Fall Family Fest in October for her rodent tableau, sharing credit with handy dad Josh. "Josh built a mousetrap to sit on top of our wagon, and (Daphne) sat in the hole as a mouse," mom Lindsey said. This month she earned the title of Happiest Baby for 2024 in The Hinsdalean's annual contest for community cuteness. "We've had a yea...
A week from today, local high school basketball fans will get what's been on their holiday wish list. The ninth edition of the Hinsdale Central Holiday Classic basketball tournament tips off Thursday, Dec. 26, beginning a four-day hoops fest featuring 16 teams from across the region and some of the area's top prospects. Joe Spagnolo, Red Devils assistant varsity boys basketball coach and HCHC organizer, said he looks forward each December to witnessing the hard work of the...
A mid-December arctic blast served as a reminder, lest anyone had forgotten, of what Chicago winters typically have in store. So Adam King was quick to enter each store as he toured downtown Hinsdale for the final installment of this year's gift guide. King, a Hinsdale native and 2010 graduate of Hinsdale Central High School, is no foe of the elements, however, as director of sales at his family's King's Landscape Design right here in the village. He relishes breathing new...
After months of objecting to Clarendon Hills’ plan to create a tax increment financing agreement along 55th Street, Hinsdale’s two public school districts have reached an agreement with that village. Community Consoli-dated Elementary District 181 Board members Monday approved an intergovernmental agreement with Clarendon Hills that dramatically reduces the amount of tax revenue the district could potentially lose under the TIF. “It’s been a journey,” said Mindy Bradford, assistant superintendent for business and operation...
Downtown Chicago certainly offers a feast for the senses to ignite spirits in the lead up to Christmas. But when it comes to melodic merriment, Hinsdale is the place for a high-quality musical performances without the city crowds and parking hassles. So hark, the concerts take the stage soon and now is the time to make plans for holiday listening delight! Central holiday concert The Hinsdale Central music department presents its holiday concert 7 to 9 p.m. this evening, Dec....
Jacob Villanueva Senior Westmont When did you start bowling competitively? Junior year. I was inspired by my dad because he really urged me to do bowling, and he's a really good bowler. At one point he was semi-pro, and he said, "You should learn from me." What do you enjoy about the sport? I enjoy it because it's a laid-back, relaxed sport. We're all friends, almost like family, because the team is really small. How have you improved over the last two years? I think I've...
Hinsdale's John Gorman was working as the communications director for the Cook County State's Attorney's office in January of 2003 when then-Illinois Gov. George Ryan granted clemency to the state's 167 death row inmates. Not surprisingly, Gorman's colleagues were livid. "As a member of the prosecutor's office, I was outraged, too," said the now retired Gorman, who had heard countless impact statements from victim's loved ones. The longtime Chicago Tribune reporter and editor...
Owners of vintage Hinsdale homes continue to respond to the village’s effort to encourage preservation as the voluntary listing of historically significant structures reaches almost 100 properties. At the Dec. 4 meeting of the historic preservation commission, five more properties were recommended for inclusion on the list, a prerequisite to be eligible for incentives to help with home renovations or additions that include matching grant funds, a property tax rebate and zoning relief. In her introductory remarks before p...
The lanes are open for Hinsdale Central athletes, as the boys and girls bowling teams have begun their seasons and boys swimming and diving has its first competition on Friday. Read what each program's head coach thinks about their respective rosters and competitive prospects. This is the second of three winter sports preview stories. The first installment ran Nov. 28, and the concluding one will appear in the Dec. 12 issue. Boys bowling First match: Nov. 11 vs. Fenton (V...
Hinsdale resident Paul Garver could be forgiven for his sensitivity to the cold on Monday. Garver and his family had just returned from a cruise in the Caribbean, and strolling the deck of a luxury liner in the tropics suddenly seemed a distant memory while bundled up against the December air in downtown Hinsdale. The Columbus, Ohio, native and U.S. Army veteran has been practicing real estate law in town for 22 years. He and wife Nancy are parents to Grant, 11, and Natalie,...
The November wind had a bite to it Friday afternoon in the parking lot of Hinsdale Central High School. But the warm soul of service wouldn't be chilled as students "stuffed the trucks" with essential food and other items in an effort to provide neighbors in need with a happy and healthy holiday season. The Thanksgiving food drive, jointly organized by the school's National Honor Society and Business Professionals of America club, benefited FISH food pantry of Downers Grove....
The Community House was where Hinsdale native Dana Reko learned about etiquette, gathered for Girl Scout Troop activities and, most formatively, took fortnightly dance class as a middle schooler. "I haven't used ballroom dancing since," she admitted with a laugh. Having now settled in Hinsdale with her own family, Dana appreciates the nonprofit center's services in a way she never did as a youth. "Our kids, from when they were little, started Tiny Toes music classes there,"...
The Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 Board intends to hire a new top superintendent in late 2025 or early 2026 to replace Hector Garcia, who will retire at the end of the 2025-26 school year. At their Nov. 18 regular meeting, board members unanimously approved a succession timeline for the superintendent’s post, which calls for the search process to begin next fall and the new superintendent to start work July of 2026. The decision came after a discussion of two succession plan options in collaboration with B...
Hinsdale High School District 86 and Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 would feel much less financial impact from a proposed tax increment financing district along 55th Street in Clarendon Hills under a new deal put forward. At the Clarendon Hills Village Board meeting Monday night, trustees approved by a 6-1 vote an intergovernmental agreement with the districts that significantly scales back the scope of the TIF by removing the Jewel-Osco and PNC properties and...
Hinsdale Central's girls swimmers and divers began the season as nomads with the Don Watson Aquatic Center under repair. "We were displaced from our home pool, traveling all these different places," said head coach Bob Barber. Homelessness did not exempt the Red Devils from going up against the state's top programs like Rosary, New Trier and St. Charles North. "They clearly were the stronger teams but we were convinced that we were kind of the best of the rest," he said. The...
What is P.A.S.S.? As a Hinsdale Central sophomore student-athlete, Aryan Bansal could detect the struggle some of his teammates were having balancing schoolwork with the demands of pursuing high school sports. "Kids were saying in the locker room, 'I've got three tests tomorrow and practice doesn't end until 6:30 p.m.' " recounted Bansal, now a junior. "There's no time to get to teacher office hours when you have to get to practice." A two-sport athlete himself, Bansal underst...
Hinsdaleans will cast consequential votes in several contested local races when they head to the polls next spring. The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board race has the most crowded field in the April 1 consolidated general election with eight candidates vying for four four-year seats. Terri Walker of Hinsdale is the sole incumbent running. She is joined by challengers Warren Ali, Andrew Catton, Bobby Fischer, Jenny Gannon, Baron Leacock and Mary Satchwell of Hinsdale and Liz Mitha of Darien. Mitha and Satchwell have...
Village, library and school boards in Hinsdale are in the midst of approving tentative levies — or annual requests for property tax revenue — before the final levy is adopted in December. The levy requests will be submitted to the clerks in DuPage and Cook counties, who will translate them into tax rates that will appear on homeowners’ bills in 2024. Charts breaking down each of the levies, with an explanation of the taxing cycle and a glossary, are on Page 5. Village of Hinsdale Hinsdale trustees will request about $9.1...
"Though she be but little, she be fierce!" Hinsdale Central's Helena Ault relishes this line she utters in the school's upcoming production of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream." "My character may be small but she's strong," Ault says of Hermia, who's caught in a romantic entanglement because of her love for one man, Lysander, while being courted by Demetrius, whom she is trying to shed. "Women were not treated well at that time, and I think it's cool how Shakespeare made...
The hues of a pinecone-shaped glass orb morph, dance and layer as Bennett Grimm manipulates it in front of his 2,000-degree torch. The Hinsdale craftsman aims to awaken the uranium-233 particles within. "Just seeing if I can give it that blacklight effect, but in glass," said Grimm, 34, in his garage studio. His efforts usually bear fruit, as evidenced by the enchanting array of finished works in his collection awaiting transport to an upcoming holiday craft show. Glass orname...
Hinsdale's only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home is poised to get a financial boost from taxpayers to defray costs of renovating the historic residence. At the Hinsdale Village Board meeting Nov. 7, trustees signaled their approval for a property tax rebate and a $10,000 matching grant to offset the cost of restoring and updating 121 S. County Line Road, the 1894-built Dutch Colonial known as the Bagley House. During a first read of a resolution to enter into a preservation in...
Sometimes a classic English cottage can have too much of a wood thing. The dark-paneled walls work in the masculine-leaning library at 100-year-old 4 E. Fifth St. In the dining room, however, they projected "austere castle" more than "inviting gathering space." Endeavoring to revitalize yet preserve the home's core character, Mimi Collins turned to interior designer Amelia Canham Eaton for a solution. Once found - an antiqued wallpaper with a green leafy motif - Eaton tried...
