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Summer's sunset doesn't have to darken the mood, since the lights are about shine on stages nearby. Area theaters are getting ready to open their new seasons of productions, and there's something for everyone in the offerings. • "Is it possible to be both a symbol and a person? A postage stamp and a grandmother? And if it is, does that duality take a toll?" Those are questions posed by Jessica Fisch, director of "The Audience," which hits the Drury Lane Theatre stage W...
Cathy Schlesinger had spent three decades in Charlotte, N.C., before the desire to be closer to her son's family led her to Hinsdale in 2021. "I had moved a lot in my earlier years, but 30 years in Charlotte was a lot to give up," she said. A couple of new neighbors invited Schlesinger to a coffee gathering sponsored by Newcomers and Neighbors of the Greater Hinsdale Area. Not only did she find a circle of fellowship - she's now president of the social organization. "It's...
The most significant improvement project at Hinsdale Central High School over the summer, according to Principal Bill Walsh, didn't require any heavy equipment. "We renumbered all the rooms," Walsh revealed on a recent campus tour shortly before students returned. Rooms now have four-digit identifiers, with 0100 numbers in the basement, 1000 and up on the first floor and 2000 on the second. "We ran out of numbers," said Walsh, explaining the way expansion over the years had...
Summer may be winding down, but Hinsdale Little League has never been hotter. Or "gooder," according to the team's abiding mantra. "Before we take the field, we say, 'This team's good, but we're gooder!' " player Dillon Phelan revealed. On Aug. 7, the town's 12U district team captured the Great Lakes Region title in thrilling fashion to advance to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., for the first time in program history. Speaking Monday via Zoom from their...
The impasse remains between Hinsdale Humane Society and the village over the terms for taking in stray dogs, but officials on both sides hope a deal can be reached. At Tuesday’s village board meeting, Village President Tom Cauley opened discussion on the dispute, which came to public light last month when the humane society notified Hinsdale police that it would no longer accept dogs picked up by the department. Cauley said he was unable to accept the nonprofit’s new fees to house dogs from partner municipalities for either $...
What's important for brain and body well-being? According to the Alzheimer's Association, nearly 7 million Americans are living with the disease. By 2050, that number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million. In 2021. Alzheimer's disease was the fifth-leading cause of death among people age 65 and older. Those are alarming figures, to be sure. But statistics should not steal people's hope in measures to stave off the effects of Alzheimer's, said Hadi Finerty, senior manager...
It takes a village to raise a child, according to the proverb. To make a statement on the road to youth softball preeminence? Sometimes it takes five villages. The Clarendon Hills Little League 12U Softball All Stars this month put on a show of resilience and unity in winning the state championship, then battling into the final four of the regional tournament in an effort to reach the Little League Softball World Series. The result marked the best performance ever for the...
What are the benefits of chi gung and tai chi? Serving cups of tea. Stepping on melting ice. Gentle actions, but they can be keenly therapeutic when incorporated into the ancient practices of chi gung and tai chi. This summer instructor Patrick Baio has been teaching a 90-minute Saturday morning course on these systems of movements and body postures at The Community House (see Page 17 for details). Baio said the program is for all ages, but most students are seniors. "A lot...
The village of Clarendon Hills wants to establish a tax increment financing district along 55th Street to promote redevelopment and increase the area’s value. But board members of Hinsdale High School District 86 voted unanimously last week for a delay in the TIF process, questioning why a relatively prosperous neighborhood needs such intervention, which would divert some property tax revenue away from school districts for 23 years or more. At a special board meeting July 24, the board requested a continuance on a vote by t...
Hinsdale Police reported incidents of attempted auto theft that occurred early Saturday morning, July 20, in the village's northeast neighborhood. According to an alert posted on the police department's social media, the incidents took place at approximately 5 a.m. in the area just north of Hinsdale Hospital. An officer noticed a suspicious vehicle in the area, which then fled southbound on the Tri-State Tollway at a high rate of speed. Several hours later, a resident in the...
The village of Hinsdale was informed two weeks ago by the Hinsdale Humane Society that the nonprofit agency would not be accepting strays from the village’s police department until a formal agreement is finalized between the two parties. Hinsdale Police Chief Brian King said that, to his knowledge, the village had not operated under a contract for the humane society’s services up to this point but had donated funding in the past. In an email to The Hinsdalean, King said the two have been trying to hammer out a contract for...
A former Schaumburg man has been sentenced to 26 years for robbing at gunpoint a Hinsdale Verizon Wireless store in 2022 and a Wheaton Sprint store in 2019, according to DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin’s office. Stephon Little, 31, who has since changed his name to Isa Al Ahad, received his sentence July 18 from DuPage County Associate Judge Joseph Bugos, handing down a 26-year sentence on the Hinsdale robbery and a 21-year sentence on the Wheaton robbery, to be served concurrently. As detailed in a press rel...
Kiran Amegadjie didn't start playing football until age 13 when he joined the Hinsdale Falcons youth program. "I remember getting hit, and I remember my first headache after a long practice and all the soreness I felt," Amegadjie recounted. "I was like, 'What did I just get myself into?' " The Hinsdale native had no idea he'd gotten himself onto a path that less than 10 years later would lead to the National Football League as the 75th pick in the 2024 Draft by his hometown...
"Why are you willing to spend time on something you're not getting credit for?" The question was posed to rising Hinsdale Central junior Asha Sarai, a student in last week's AP History Writing Workshop, by Alex Mayster, executive director of communications for Hinsdale High School District 86. Sarai had a ready response. "I obviously do care about my academic success," she said, citing the summer slide that can happen. "It's a great way to get back in the mindset of learning...
The funeral business has changed in the century since Harry Sullivan made the transition from an accounting career. “The first location was really just a storefront, because they were still doing wakes and everything in homes,” funeral director Brian Sullivan said of the venture his great-grandfather launched in Chicago’s Marquette Manor neighborhood in 1924. For 100 years the Sullivan family has served grieving families, helping them navigate one of the most difficult episo...
Work on the downtown parking deck continued this week, limiting access to sections of spaces as part of a project officials hope will be completed by the end of the month. Phase two of the preventative maintenance work on the 4-year-old facility began Monday, according to George Peluso, Hinsdale’s director of public works, who said this portion is expected to be completed early next week, weather permitting. “They’re primarily working in the middle areas of the upper and lower deck,” Peluso explained. “Contractors originall...
Local UChicago Medicine AdventHealth staff had reason to follow the NASCAR Chicago Street Race on Sunday after professional driver Erik Jones stopped by the organization's Cancer Institute in Hinsdale Friday. Jones brought his No. 43 UChicago Medicine AdventHealth-branded race car to the 1 Salt Creek Lane facility to promote the sporting event and to raise awareness about skin cancer and other causes close to his heart. In remarks to kick off the pep rally, the 28-year-old...
Eight decades ago, Hinsdale's Harold Bogigian was thankful to have made it back from a World War II "suicide run" with the U.S. Navy. A radioman on the SS John Stevenson merchant ship, Bogigian and his fellow crewmen departed New York in January of 1944 on a mission to deliver supplies to Murmansk, Russia, in the Arctic Circle. "My parents were terrified when I left," related Bogigian, who was 19 at the time. "Our mission to Murmansk was probably my most dangerous mission of...
The collegiate athletic arena awaits a number of recent Hinsdale Central graduates, as well as Hinsdale residents who completed their studies at private schools. These sports standouts shared their fondest high school memories with The Hinsdalean, as well as what excites them as they head to their new campus homes. This is the first of a two-part series. The second installment will run July 11. Fiona Allen, University of Virgina, lacrosse I will most remember ... playing...
The wording of a new discrimination policy was the subject of a protracted discussion at last week’s Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meeting. Policy 2:270 prohibiting discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color and national origin was on the board’s consent agenda for approval at the June 27 meeting. The provision is in response to the Racism-Free Schools Law passed by the Illinois General Assembly last year, explained board member and policy committee Chair Peggy James, who said districts must enact suc...
Summer's biggest celebration is upon us, and Hinsdale residents have plenty of ways to join the party next week with fellow patriots across the country. Nothing marks the season in the village more than the Independence Day festivities right in the downtown business district next Thursday, July 4. Make sure to get a good vantage point for the annual parade, which begins at 10 a.m. It will kick off from Sixth and Garfield streets and travel north on Garfield to First Street,...
Shortly after moving to Hinsdale from Chicago in 2021, Hinsdale's Alex LaRoia signed up for a baby music class hoping to enrich the bond with her child. She had no idea the extent to which her personal connections also would flourish. "I met some girls who were in (Hinsdale Junior Woman's Club), and that opened up the floodgates to my entryway to the club," LaRoia said. Leadership posts in Juniors followed, first as new member chair and currently as one of the philanthropy...
Earlier this month, the Hinsdale Devils Black 12U travel baseball team rolled in Cooperstown, N.Y., for a 5-day tournament. Playing in the bucolic upstate New York town at the southern tip of Otsego Lake is a summer rite of passage for hundreds of youth travel programs around the country, not unlike the pilgrimage fans of the sport make to celebrate the icons of the game enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum located there. Devils team member Ryder McLaurin s...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members are poised to approve a tentative budget of $136.8 million for fiscal year 2025. At the June 13 committee of the whole meeting, Josh Stephenson, the district's chief financial officer, told the four board members in attendance the proposed spending plan is a balanced one with revenues projected to virtually match expenditures. Expenditures would be 3.8 percent more than the $131.8 million outlay for fiscal year 2024. The revenues...
Fuller’s Car Wash may be willing to close down to settle a lawsuit over the tragic death of 14-year-old Sean Richards of Hinsdale last summer. But Sean’s family said there’s more at stake for both loved ones and the village at large than simply shuttering the business. The latest developments in the matter emerged at Tuesday night’s village board meeting after Sean’s father Brian rose to speak during public comment. After thanking the village for placing jersey barriers outside the car wash exit to prevent vehicles from ente...
