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This Christmas, forget sending an Amazon gift card via text. Think about celebrating the old-fashioned way by giving a book - an actual book with a cover and pages that turn (and not with the swipe of a finger). Not sure which books would make good gifts? Not to worry. We asked librarians and staff at the Hinsdale Public Library to share their suggestions for titles many on your list would love to receive. "All Systems Red" (Murderbot Diaries 1) by Martha Wells "All Systems...
My Christmas card this year is an homage to Christmases past, with a collage of my favorite shots of Ainsley visiting Santa over the years. I’ve been thinking a lot about Christmases past this year, from the little cuts my mom and I would get assembling our aluminum tree (remember the ’70s?) to our annual Christmas Eve celebration at my grandparents’ house in Dolton. My aunt, a mere 18 months older, and I would wait anxiously until it was time to go downstairs and open prese...
The property tax is largest single tax in Illinois and is the major source of revenue for Community Consolidated District 181 and Hinsdale High School District 86. It also is a significant source of funding for the village of Hinsdale, along with the Hinsdale Public Library, although the village has several other sources of revenue to support operations. Taxing bodies are required each year to file a levy, or request for property tax revenue. Setting the levy actually is the...
Name: Jackson Haag Year: senior Hometown: Hinsdale When did you first start playing hockey? When I was 5 years old. My mom took me to a learn-to-skate thing at Darien Sportsplex. I liked it a lot from the beginning. I tried other sports and that by far was my favorite one. What do you enjoy most about the sport? The team aspect is one really good thing about it. The combination of skating and then skill with the stick I like a lot. How is it coming back after a...
People around the county marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Tuesday with ceremonies and observances. The Hinsdale Historical Society commemorated the occasion by opening a new exhibit titled “Remembering Pearl Harbor & WWII, Hinsdale’s Efforts at Home & Abroad.” The exhibit features photos of service men and women, various artifacts, maps and letters, and a list of Hinsdale residents known to have served in the war. That list names 1,496 Hinsdal...
Joanne Smith, president and CEO of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, was a noted physician and the driving force behind the transformation of care delivery in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. But her husband, Rory Repicky, said she still was very much the unassuming, fun-loving girl he met working in a hospital emergency room in Pontiac, Mich., while in college. "Out here, she always went by Mrs. Repicky. Most people didn't even know she was a doc," he said. She...
After covering Hinsdale school districts for almost 30 years, I didn't realize how exciting the job of superintendent is until last week. "It is really, really, really, really fun and cool," said Megan Monteleone, a sixth-grader at Hinsdale Middle School whose parents won the "Superintendent for a Day" item at an Elm School fundraising auction last year. "I knew he did a lot of stuff in the district, but I wasn't really sure what he did," said Megan, who spent the day with...
Following an exchange outside of Hinsdale South High School after an Oct. 28 school board meeting, Erik Held has filed a grievance complaint against fellow board member Jeff Waters. Held sent an email to Hinsdale High School District 86 Superintendent Tammy Prentiss Nov. 4 to file the complaint under the uniform grievance procedure, according to documents posted on the Freedom of Information Act log (dated Nov. 8) on the district's website. In it, he alleges that Waters violated various school board policies by hitting him,...
Most athletic teams faced abbreviated or interrupted winter seasons last year due to COVID-19. Among them were the girls gymnastics team, boys hockey team and boys swim team. These coaches and athletes are happy to return to a more normal season this year, with hopes of continuing play into the postseason. This is the second in a three-part series. Boys and girls bowling and wrestling were previewed Nov. 25. The final installment Dec. 9 will feature the boys and girls...
Hinsdale's Michelle Riley is looking forward to the start of the holiday season. She and her family will be at the Hinsdale Christmas Walk Friday night. Then, on Sunday, she'll don her holiday leggings to run in the 5K Jingle Dash. This is the inaugural year for the fundraiser, sponsored by the Hinsdale Junior Woman's Club. Riley, a public relations specialist, went to her first Juniors meeting shortly after she was transferred to Chicago from LA in 2003 and a friend...
Next Christmas, the Glenn family will have a new member at the holiday table. Laura and Matt Glenn's daughter, Taylor, is getting married in July 2022. The family typically gathers at the Hinsdale home the Glenns have lived in for 26 years. They raised their three children there - Riley, 25, Taylor, 22, and Jack, 21. "We love our house," Laura Glenn said. "We love our location." Glenn also has enjoyed the more than a decade she has spent volunteering with the Hinsdale...
Planning is the key to preparing Thanksgiving dinner - especially if you want good leftovers, like turkey enchiladas. "There's usually plenty of cheese leftover from the cheese appetizer tray," Hinsdale's John Sachanda said. "That's a great thing to add to the enchiladas. Put some good cheese out there to begin with. Get ahead of the game." Another favorite ethnic dish that uses up leftovers and pays tribute to Sachanda's eastern European heritage is pierogis. He fills them...
Every year when the broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade begins, I tear up. This is a great source of amusement at my house, with Dan and Ainsley eager to supply their annual admonition of what a dork I am. I agree it's ridiculous, but I can't help it. Every year, I try to figure out what it is about the parade that hits such an emotional chord with me. I wonder if it's memories of watching the parade on the black and white television that sat on a cart in the...
The Hinsdale Central High School girls swim and dive team earned its best finish since 2008 at the IHSA State Championships Nov. 12-13, earning 100 points and tying with Barrington for second place. New Trier won the meet at FMC Natatorium in Westmont with 182 points. The Red Devils were led by junior Kit Schneider, who placed first in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 22.98 (see Page 58 for results) and who swam the first leg of all three relays, which placed second...
What makes a great Thanksgiving dessert? Fancy, elaborate desserts certainly have their place at the holiday table. But they aren't what comes to mind when pastry chef Toni Marie Cox thinks of Thanksgiving. "It's a fall holiday, so in my mind, it's rustic things," said Cox, owner of Toni Patisserie & Café in Hinsdale. "It's why pies are so appropriate. It's also about the fall harvest." Apples are quite popular in pies, but Cox is also using them this year in a French apple...
The jury is still out - literally - on the fate of Kyle Rittenhouse as we go to press Wednesday afternoon. I've been angry with Rittenhouse since I first saw the videos of him roaming the streets of Kenosha with his AR-15 rifle after he killed two men and injured a third. He became, for me, a sort of symbol of all the terrible things that had been happening the summer of 2020. Lives were being destroyed by police and protesters and a worldwide pandemic. As I watched the clips...
By Pamela Lannom [email protected] Educators are pleased with results of the fall MAP tests in Community Consolidated Elementary District 181. Mean RIT math scores for students have increased in second through sixth grade and dropped slightly in first, seventh and eighth grade. All student groups, when tracked from the fall 2019 MAP test, have increased their scores. The biggest gain is for current fourth-graders, whose mean RIT increased 28.3 points since they were...
Hinsdale's Kari Galassi was happy to help when friend and fellow Hinsdale Hospital Foundation board member Shana Robertson asked her to assist in raising money to renovate the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Amita Health Adventist Medical Center Hinsdale. But it wasn't until she took her first tour of the NICU a couple of months ago that she truly comprehended the difference the project would make. "The first time I toured, I was on the Level 3 side and there was a dad...
I was talking to my next-door neighbor, Judy, over the weekend, and somehow we got on the subject of her husband George's death in July 2017. She had been very worried in the days after he died about holding some type of event so family and friends could gather to remember him. She really wanted to have it at her house but didn't think she had enough room for everyone she wanted to invite. We had the space at our house, so we offered to host it for her. She promised it would...
Any driver who approaches a four-way intersection with no stop or yield signs might feel a bit of confusion. Who has the right of way? That question has been eliminated at all but two four-way intersections in the village. The Hinsdale Police Department and Hinsdale Village Board have worked to install stop or yield signs to establish the right of way at almost two dozen previously uncontrolled four-way intersections over the past three years. "In roughly 2018, we started...
A discussion of the program of studies for the 2022-23 school year at the Oct. 28 Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meeting highlighted the tensions surrounding grading practices, the physics-first science sequence, alignment between the two high schools and divisions on the board. As the meeting opened, board member Peggy James asked to table the agenda item regarding the program of studies. She also called for the district to schedule a special meeting dedicated to discussion of the program of studies. Her suggestion...
By Pamela Lannom [email protected] What did coaching and teaching mean to the late Rex Whitlatch? Everything, his wife, Nancy, said. "Coaching and teaching came first. I came second. The kids came third," she said. "He took so much pride in his job and coaching and wrestling and everything." The two met when they were in their teens, when Whitlatch was competing on the high school team. "It's all I ever knew," she said. Whitlatch, a husband, father and legendary coach,...
I got the call a year ago this morning. It was a Wednesday - deadline day - and I had a lot to do before the next day's paper could go to press. So when I picked up the phone and the woman from hospice said my mom was nearing the end and suggested I come over, I said I couldn't. I would be over after we finished the paper, I told her. I'm not sure if I didn't think my mom would pass away before I got there or I didn't want to be there when she did. It might have been a little...
With the current 15-year master infrastructure plan nearing its end in 2024, village officials are preparing to create the next document to guide road resurfacing, reconstruction and repairs. Trustees plan to spend $57,400 to have HR Green conduct a pavement management study to help the village develop a new MIP. “The new 15-year plan will help us identify what infrastructure work will need to be done and when it should be done so we can effectively deploy monies that have been set aside for that infrastructure work,” Vil...
Illinois requires all law enforcement officers in the state to use body cams by 2025. The Hinsdale Police Department will have no problem meeting the deadline. Officers responding to a 9-1-1 call have been using body cams since Sept. 1. "We love having the body cams," Hinsdale Police Chief Brian King said, before adding, "Had it not been for the legislation, would we have considered in a necessity? Probably not." House Bill 3653, which became law in January, requires law...
