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In the spring of 2020, the Hinsdale Chorale was preparing not only for a seasonal concert but for its 20th anniversary celebration. Both were nixed by the pandemic, at least temporarily. Now the vocal troupe is readying to return to the stage to make up for lost time. The chorale will perform the program "From Silence to Gloria" Thanksgiving weekend at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange. Kristi Freitager, a chorale board member and longtime alto for the group, said the...
Building strength is Craig Kruse's stock in trade. The physical therapist has served several years as a Hinsdale Central football coach and a trainer for the school's student-athletes, helping them optimize their physical performance. "It's fun to take kids full circle - to help them get bigger and stronger and faster in the weight room, help them become a better football player on the field, and if they get hurt, I'm able to help them get back (to playing) by treating them,"...
The Hinsdale Central boys and girls cross country teams each added hardware to their trophy cases last weekend with second- and third-place finishes, respectively, at the IHSA state final meet in Peoria on Saturday. Both squads took advantage of the clear skies and unseasonably mild temperatures to register some of the best times of the season in the 3-mile race. For the boys, claiming second with 175 points was the program's best result since back-to-back state titles in 2013...
Dog-owning users of Katherine Legge Memorial Park persuaded Hinsdale officials not to shift them to a smaller facility in the park. At Tuesday night's parks and recreation commission meeting, commissioners unanimously voted against recommending the creation of a 3.35-acre gated dog area, accessible from morning to night, at the 5901 S. County Line Road park. Dogs are currently free to roam 13.5 acres across the north end of the park during limited morning and evening hours....
What's it like returning to live shows? A canceled Hinsdale Central musical in 2020 and an exclusively virtual one last spring has primed students and audiences for a theater reunion. That nationwide longing prompted Music Theatre International to release free-of-charge nearly four dozen hit show tunes from productions such as "Ragtime," "Rent," "Newsies" and "Little Shop of Horrors" for a one-time, one-weekend opportunity to help revive local theaters. "If you want to do...
Many of Hinsdale’s businesses have in recent months adorned their front window with new signage: Help Wanted. At Baldinelli Pizza, owner Greg White said they’ve been looking for a line cook and delivery drivers since the summer. “I’ve been posting for jobs on various sites for probably the last three months and gotten little traffic for applicants,” White said He’s certainly not alone. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to roil the labor market, as reported in headlines across the country. J.C. Licht is seeking to fill positions...
Name: Cyrus Fallah Year: senior Hometown: Clarendon Hills What's your earliest memory playing soccer? I remember playing at the United Soccer Academy in Oak Brook in elementary school and meeting some of the friends and teammates that I still play with today. What's kept you committed to the sport? I've been captivated by how you can experience what it means to be part of a team to achieve your goal and working with your teammates to attain it. How was it having last season...
About 200 students and staff from Hinsdale Central High School fanned out across the area Saturday morning in a spirit of volunteerism for the school's annual Day of Service. Sponsored by the Red Devil Service Club, which aims to benefit the surrounding community through philanthropic opportunities, teams of volunteers are sent to various locations to extend help in whatever way they can. Senior Zack Azmy, co-president of the service club, said other Central clubs and sports...
Safina Uberoi was visiting Los Angeles this summer when she got an alert from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy that an important early work from the famed architect's canon was for sale in Hinsdale, Ill., and at risk of demolition. Uberoi - with husband Lukas - had spent the last five years restoring Wright's 1954 "Usonian Automatic" Tonkens Home outside Cincinnati. But Hinsdale's Bagley House, constructed 60 years earlier by a young Wright beginning to articulate...
Preliminary data from the Illinois School Report Card reveals that Hinsdale Central’s graduation rate remains high while the school’s SAT scores have slipped. The report card was released Oct. 29 with limited information, including the rate of ninth-graders who are on track to graduate. At Central, 99 percent of ninth-graders are on track to graduate, which means they have earned at least five full-year course credits (10 semester credits) and have earned no more than one semester “F” in a core course (English, math, science...
The Hinsdale Central girls tennis team added to the program's state-leading legacy of IHSA championships, capturing its 19th first-place trophy at the state tournament Oct. 21-23 at Buffalo Grove High School. The team registered 34 points to claim victory, with Lake Forest, Stevenson and New Trier high schools in a three-way tie for runner-up with 26. New Trier ranks second to Central in championships won with eight. It was the second title for head coach Shawna Zsinko, who...
Sisters and Hinsdale residents Trish Injaychock and Courtney McCarthy understand the elements of an unforgettable vacation, and their clients trust them to deliver. As the owners and founders of Hinsdale-based Elysian Travel, an upscale boutique agency, Injaychock and McCarthy draw on their backgrounds as a large-scale event planner and global brand manager for a hotelier, respectively, to plan "exclusive experiences" for people. "There's nothing better than when a client...
Visitors to the Hinsdale Community Pool next swim season will enjoy a wave of improvements. Work began last month on $771,600 in upgrades to the facility, including a new concrete lap pool deck, a new filtration system, repainting of the pool and new fencing. Heather Bereckis, Hinsdale's superintendent of parks and recreation, said the major renovations will ensure the pool can be maintained for users for years to come. "These improvements will really increase the longevity...
Hinsdale's Chris Chute never wanted anyone to feel left out. His mom, Kirsten, said Chris' gentle, big-hearted nature was a common refrain at the memorial service following his Aug. 31 death at age 23. Then last week, she received a letter from a former Monroe School classmate recounting her son's kindness when she was the new kid in fourth grade. "She wrote, 'Nobody was talking to me, and (Chris) was the very first person to start up a conversation about basketball,' "...
Hinsdale Central's performing arts troupes are returning to in-person auditorium programs, including a unique weekend-sharing schedule of dramas this week and a choral concert next week. Central's drama club will perform "The Laramie Project" for its fall selection at 7 tonight, Oct. 21, and at 5 p.m. Saturday. The play recounts the Oct. 7, 1998, attack of Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, who was brutally assaulted and tied to a fence...
A career in education was not the original vision for Madison School Principal Barbara Shanahan, a biology major in college. Her focus shifted while helping a friend settle in to her new California teaching job. "We got to go and observe (a class), and I was like, 'This is really nice. I really like this,' " she recounted. "I ended up going back to school to get my master's with (teaching) certification." Shanahan is the newest member of Community Consolidated School District...
Eight of the nine Community Consolidated School District 181 buildings are seeing high growth and high achievement among students when measured against their counterparts at comparable schools. That was one of the main findings of the Similar Schools report district board members heard at Monday’s meeting. In her presentation, Tracey Miller, director of assessment, instruction and evaluation, said the district commissioned the nonprofit NWEA to conduct the study. Criteria used to identify alike schools include percentage o...
The Hinsdale Central boys golf team was less than satisfied with its sixth-place position after the first round of the IHSA state golf tournament Friday at The Den in Bloomington. It didn't take long on Saturday for the Red Devils to upgrade their status. "We had five birdies and a par on our first hole of the day, moving us into third place," said head boys varsity golf coach Jess Krueger. They held that spot the rest of the day, shooting 592 as team and extending to 16 the p...
The Memorial Hall board room was standing room only Tuesday night as KLM Park users turned out to urge village officials not to replace the open space they and their off-leash dogs enjoy with a much smaller fenced facility. The special meeting of the parks and recreation commission served as an opportunity for commissioners to hear public opinion on a plan revealed last month to create a 3.35-acre fenced area in the southwest corner of the 52-acre park at 5901 S. County Line Road. Dogs are currently free to roam 13.5 acres...
Why is earth science important? Years ago Hinsdale Middle School science teacher Katie Garvey was at her childhood Orland Park home when she felt the structure sway from a passing train. Except there was no train. "I didn't think it was an earthquake at the time. It was really little," she said. As denizens of the Midwest, Hinsdaleans can be thankful that major seismic activity and tsunamis do not rank among natural disaster threats. But the unpredictable nature of the...
HCS Family Services will be moving to larger and less disjointed environs pending Hinsdale Village Board approval of the agency’s relocation from the Memorial Building to the village-owned building at 22 E. Elm St. At their Oct. 5 meeting, trustees held a first read discussion of a proposed 10-year lease agreement with HCS to provide rent-free use of the one-floor, 5,550-square-foot facility. The new space would double the agency’s current footprint, which is spread across three levels. “This new lease will allow HCS to move...
Hinsdale Central senior Bella Insignares was grateful to return to the class this year to finish out her high school tenure. As a member of the Hispanic Student Association, she felt inspired to foster fellowship around cultural awareness by sponsoring activities to mark Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct. 15. "The thing I love about Hispanic culture is it's so about togetherness - family and friends and just everybody coming together," Insignares said. "What we wanted to...
Capt. Andrew Ziemer of the Hinsdale Fire Department said calls regularly come in to report concerning but confusing sounds. “We get service calls all the time when something’s beeping,” he said. “‘What does that beep mean?’ ” Visitors to the Hinsdale Fire and Police Open House this Saturday, Oct. 9, can find out with this year’s theme, “Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety.” Ziemer said the aim is to help people distinguish between audible alerts such as the smoke alarm chirp and the carbon monoxide detector beep. The annual ev...
A new set of grading practices has opened the latest schism among Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members. At the Sept. 30 board meeting, district administrators reviewed the grading framework that, among other provisions, eliminates zeros from the grading scale. It also establishes that summative assessments used to gauge a student’s mastery of content, like unit tests and labs, account for at least 70 percent of a student’s grade, and formative preparation such as homework and class participation constitute no mor...
By Ken Knutson [email protected] Residents of northeast Hinsdale who suffered property damage from flooding during a June 26 storm believe work related to the Tri-State Tollway expansion is to blame but are still waiting for compensation. The Illinois Tollway said insurance companies are still working to determine liability but has not completed its review. A number of affected residents attended Tuesday’s village board meeting to enlist the village’s help addressing their damage claims, some as high as $100,000 acco...
