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Lights, camera, action! - Caroline Hurley, Ella Forsman and Peyton Smolarczyk perform a scene from the original play "Monster Musical" filmed at The Jam Lab in front of a green screen. On the left you can see the girls with the background of a taxi cab added to the scene. A group of 30 students from third to eighth grade filmed four original musicals for BAMtheatre's Jr. Conservatory Ensemble at The Jam Lab in Brookfield. Please turn to Page 48 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff...
Frank William Swan, 89, of Hinsdale passed away peacefully on March 2, 2021. Frank was born in 1931 and spent his childhood on the farm in Oakville, Iowa, the proud son of Frances and Harold Swan. His love of baseball started as a youngster and it led him to play ball at Iowa State University. After graduating, Frank moved to Chicago and began his 58 years in the meat business. Early in his career, he and his partner, Frank Vaia, started Nationwide Beef on Fulton Street and...
Christopher Joseph Nash, 83, a longtime Hinsdale resident, passed away peacefully March 8, 2021, after a long battle with dementia. He was born in 1937 in Bodyke, County Clare, and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. His parents, Patrick and Isabel, had eight other children - Gerry, Paddy, Maureen, John, Austin, Kay, Isabel and Jim. Chris and Jim immigrated to the United States in 1957 at the age of 19. Chris met his beloved future bride, Barbara, at a Chicago Northside Irish dance....
Thomas Lewis Keck, 83, passed away at his Oak Brook home on Feb. 27, 2021. He was born in 1937 in Chicago (Hyde Park) to Alice and William S. Keck. He graduated from St. Ignatius High School in Chicago, and, after service in the Army, went on to receive his master’s in higher mathematics from the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. He moved to Alaska in 1960 and began teaching high school math in the towns of Kodiak and Cordova, Alaska. Tom discovered that many of his students made more money fishing during the summers than he d...
Peter D. Cook, 85, of Downers Grove, a former longtime Hinsdale resident, passed away peacefully Feb. 24, 2021. Peter was born in 1935, in Chicago to Junius Ford Jr. and Barbara (nee Jacobus) Cook. He grew up in Hinsdale and graduated from Hinsdale High School in 1953. Following graduation, Peter attended the University of Colorado, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, discovered the joy of skiing, and met Beverly Ann Pollard of Topeka, Kan., who would...
✔︎ Margaret Kleber Christine Dannhausen-Brun Incumbent Margie Kleber and challenger Christine Dannhausen-Brun are vying for the two-year seat on the Community Consolidated District 181 Board. We endorse Kleber to complete the term of Bill Merchantz, who resigned in February 2020. Dannhausen-Brun is a strong candidate and we have no doubt she would be a constructive board member. Her voluminous resume of service activities demonstrates a deep appreciation for the community and a heart to give back. She clearly follows dev...
✔ Mary Bock ✔ Amy Glynn ✔ Kristin McDaniel ✔ Richard Munson Ryan Trombly In the race for Hinsdale Public Library Board, incumbent candidates Mary Bock, Amy Glynn, Kristin McDaniel are joined by newcomers Richard Munson and Ryan Trombly in seeking one of four open trustee seats. We believe the three incumbents and Munson are best suited to serve on the board for the next four years. This is first election in recent memory featuring a contested library board race, which can primarily attributed to the absence of the village...
✔︎ Margaret Kleber Christine Dannhausen-Brun Incumbent Margie Kleber and challenger Christine Dannhausen-Brun are vying for the two-year seat on the Community Consolidated District 181 Board. We endorse Kleber to complete the term of Bill Merchantz, who resigned in February 2020. Dannhausen-Brun is a strong candidate and we have no doubt she would be a constructive board member. Her voluminous resume of service activities demonstrates a deep appreciation for the community and a heart to give back. She clearly follows dev...
✔ Mary Bock ✔ Amy Glynn ✔ Kristin McDaniel ✔ Richard Munson Ryan Trombly In the race for Hinsdale Public Library Board, incumbent candidates Mary Bock, Amy Glynn, Kristin McDaniel are joined by newcomers Richard Munson and Ryan Trombly in seeking one of four open trustee seats. We believe the three incumbents and Munson are best suited to serve on the board for the next four years. This is first election in recent memory featuring a contested library board race, which can primarily attributed to the absence of the village...
Last Friday was shaping up to be a big day for the Fussaro family. "We're actually getting a puppy today," mom Tracy Fussaro revealed during a conversation with The Hinsdalean that morning. "We're getting a chocolate Lab puppy. "Let's add to the craziness!" she added with a smile, speculating as to the level of house dog-proofing required. With her flexible schedule as a real estate agent and her husband Tom working from home, she envisions lots of neighborhood walks with...
Some Hinsdale Community Pool fees are going up as the village adjusts to last year's minimum wage increase and also looks to keep its pricing commensurate with other area swim facilities. At Monday's parks and recreation commission meeting, commissioners approved increasing the hourly lap rental rate from $15 to $18 for resident groups and from $26 to $28 for nonresident groups for the 2021 season. A group must be comprised of at least 75 percent Hinsdale residents to qualify...
Ten days prior to hosting the 23rd annual Tablescapes Illuminate luncheon in March of last year, the Hinsdale chapter of the Infant Welfare Society was forced to postpone its event due to the pandemic. Now, a year later, the chapter will hold its coveted event virtually. While the women of the Hinsdale chapter fundraise throughout the year, Tablescapes has long been the chapter's largest fundraising event benefiting the Infant Welfare Society's Angel Harvey Family Health...
I hope you will join me in supporting Margie Kleber in her candidacy for the District 181 Board. As the current president of the board, Margie is in the unique position of providing to the new board not only solid leadership but also experience and continuity of leadership, something her opponent lacks. This has been a challenging year for our children and our schools, and Margie has provided the leadership that we needed to get children back in the classroom safely. I have known Margie for many years and worked closely with...
The upcoming election on April 6 covers municipal positions including our school, library and village boards. These are probably on your radar. But the election also includes board and key staff of Downers Grove Township, the unit of local government that you probably don’t know much about (it’s the largest of the nine townships in DuPage County). Most of Hinsdale (the portion west of County Line Road) is in Downers Grove Township, and the township also includes adjacent suburbs to the west and south. The township annual bud...
Hinsdale, we have a problem. Many of us moved to Hinsdale because it is best in class. Consistently ranked one of the top places to live in Illinois, Hinsdale has enjoyed a sterling reputation for its public education system, which ensures our children are prepared for success and our property values remain strong. That reputation is in danger due to the D86 board’s inability to lead. Lack of transparency in governance. Suppression of different views. Curriculum decisions apparently being made without sufficient analysis o...
Waist deep in a flowerbed full of colorful zinnias, I stopped weeding. I looked up and saw a monarch butterfly and then it hit me - I was wonderstruck. Its beauty was so captivating that it filled me with awe. I often feel this way when I experience the presence of something bigger than myself. Perhaps you have felt it, too. It's easy to get lost in a nature's great splendor - a starry sky, a technicolor sunset, a summer garden in full bloom. Have you ever observed the way...
I am writing to express my enthusiastic support of Debbie Levinthal for the District 86 Board of Education. I’ve known Debbie for 10 years. The first time I heard Debbie speak was at a parent meeting for our children’s preschool. I remember being blown away by her articulate advocacy about food allergy precautions in the classroom. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with Debbie on school-related committees. I’ve also sought her opinion on various education topics. Debbie has served as a guide for me as I navig...
I strongly support Jeff Waters and Peggy James for the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board. Jeff and Peggy will bring much needed good governance to the school board. Our high school is the gem of our community. It is widely regarded as one of the best high schools in Illinois, and we need to ensure that remains the case. School board decisions not only affect the quality of our children’s education, they also affect home values, which are directly tied to the quality of our schools. A top quality high school must have a...
I am writing to share my enthusiastic support for Debbie Levinthal for the District 86 Board of Education this April. Debbie is a dear family friend, respected neighbor and an amazingly caring mother to four wonderful children, two of whom currently attend Hinsdale Central. When first meeting Debbie years ago, it was a comical turn of events when my husband recognized her as his algebra II and trigonometry teacher from New Trier High School. From my husband’s personal experience, I quickly learned that Debbie was an e...
I am extremely pleased to support Debbie Levinthal, candidate for the District 86 Board, and in my view, one of the original advocates for maintaining academic excellence in our district. She has been “part of the conversation” since 2019 when the first of the high school curriculum changes was proposed for the science program. Months later, when a new math curriculum was presented, Debbie did extensive research on the proposal and proactively reached out to district administrators to advocate against this curriculum cha...
My name is Haley Dynis, I’m a junior at Hinsdale Central High School and a life-long friend of Kendall Pickering. I’ve recently seen articles regarding the ribbons around town honoring the life of Kendall. As residents have displayed disapproval of the ribbons, I too would like to voice my opinion of their disrespect to our honorable gesture. Loved ones of Kendall took the week after her passing to put up ribbons in her honor. The ribbons stayed up for less than two months before being deemed a controversy in our town. By...
I am writing to announce my enthusiastic endorsement of Jeff Waters and Peggy James for the D86 Board of Education. As the campaign manager for the 2019 D86 referendum, I spent countless hours working alongside Jeff. While attending meetings, knocking on doors and having great dialogue with both “Yes” and “No” voters across the district, I personally witnessed Jeff work tirelessly and passionately for the betterment of all 4,000 students in our district for over five months. I observed him consistently respond to various...
Hinsdale's first florist - Morris Florist filled the need for a florist in downtown Hinsdale, according to Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale" when it opened up on Hinsdale Avenue in 1902. His business eventually expanded to include six greenhouses on the corner of Monroe Street and Ogden Avenue and several others outside of Hinsdale as well. Do you have a Hinsdale photo that is at least 25 years old? We'd love to share it with our readers. Stop by our office...
