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Village officials are discussing a two-pronged approach to help encourage historic preservation in town. One of the strategies is to offer incentives to those who are interested in preserving a historic home. The Hinsdale Village Board and Hinsdale Historic Preservation Commission met together Tuesday to discuss a proposal to offer zoning relief in such cases. “The goal is to create a separate, streamlined, user-friendly section in the zoning code with easily applied bulk regulations for historic properties,” village pla...
Trumpet is a blue cream kitty who is looking for her forever home. She would do well with kids 13 years and older. She’s a playful and goofy 9-month-old whose adoption fee is $100. The Hinsdale Humane Society Tuthill Family Pet Rescue & Resource Center has re-opened to the public. Hours are noon to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays and 1 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Capacity will be limited to about 20 visitors. Interested adopters are encouraged to fill out an online application a...
The start of a new school year is approaching, and a number of class of 2021 high school graduates will launch their college experience academically and athletically. These fresh Hinsdale Central - and one Fenwick Academy - alums share their visions and reflections as the new chapter opens. Emily Ascher Rhodes College, golf I'm looking forward to: getting to know my new teammates. I'll remember: how welcoming and supportive everyone in the Red Devil program was, especially...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. https://www.d181.org On the draft agenda: start of the year plan, safety and crisis informational update, memo of understanding with HCHTA approval Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12 Hinsdale South High School,7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: opening school plan, community engagement plan next steps, agreements with Anew Collective...
Twenty-three new Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 22 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported one new case. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 1,869, compared to 1,846 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had one confirmed COVID-19 patient and one patient awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokesman said. The rolling seven-day positivity rate for Region 8, which includes DuPage County, was...
Hinsdale Village Board Among other business Tuesday night, trustees: • approved a new water rate structure that includes a $15 infrastructure maintenance and improvement fee on each bill (issued every two months) to fund water and sewer infrastructure projects. A typical household of four is expected to see an increase of $1.58 a month. The new rates are expected to bring in an additional $750,000 a year. • agreed to issue almost $3.1 million in general obligation bonds to refinance bonds issued in 2012 to take advantage of...
Laughing along with lunch on the lawn - The Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Department and Hinsdale Public Library's three-part Lunch on the Lawn series concluded Aug. 4 with Dan Gogh's Magic and Art Show. Sophia Mersman was a big fan of Gogh's comedy, magic and art. Gogh uses his show to help inspire kids to read. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
The upcoming Mind-Body Fest at Wellness House couldn’t come at a better time. “Certainly the past year and a half has been unprecedented, you could say, in terms of anxiety and isolation and for those who are dealing with cancer, even more so,” said Lisa Kolavennu, executive director of Wellness House in Hinsdale. “Yet engaging in these simple acts of self-care really has an alleviating effect for some of those negative experiences of isolation.” The event kicks off Saturday, Aug. 28, with a series of 90-minute sessions desig...
BAKING CAMPS n Baking Camp Aug. 16-20 The Community House 415 W. Eighth St., Hinsdale https://www.thecommunityhouse.org (630) 323-7500 This Whole Child Learning camp for ages 5 to 11 will teach participants the basics of baking as they measure, mix and knead their way to tasty treats. Kids will sample their creations and take some home, too. Masks must be worn. Time: 1 to 4 p.m. Cost: $365. RR CAMPS FOR YOUNG KIDS n Guppies Kiddie Camp Through Aug. 20 The Community House 415 W. Eighth St., Hinsdale https:/...
BAND DIRECTOR WINS AWARD Community Consolidated Elementary District 181’s Eric Morong was recently selected to receive the 2021 Quinlan & Fabish Chicagoland Music Educators Award. Morong was recognized at a June 17 celebration at the Quinlan & Fabish Burr Ridge location. He teaches band at Prospect School and Clarendon Hills Middle School and is entering his fourth year teaching in the district. “This is quite an amazing feat,” CHMS Principal Levi Brown said. “We are both proud and excited for Eric with this wonderf...
As Hinsdale's village planner, Bethany Salmon is helping the village prepare for the future while keeping one eye solidly focused on the past. Salmon's job is to protect the buildings that make Hinsdale special while exploring opportunities for expansion and improvement. Developers and business owners with hopes of bringing projects to the village must first pass their ideas past Salmon. "We're not interested in growth for the sake of growth," said Salmon, who was drawn to...
Mark Russell Turpin, 64, passed away Aug. 6, 2021. Born in Clinton, Okla., in 1957 to Sally and Jack Turpin, he grew up in Dallas. Mark married the love of his life Kathleen Shea of Hinsdale on Sept. 24, 1983. They were wed in Hinsdale and spent their life together in New Braunfels, Texas. Mark was a devout Christian, ambassador of fun and a friend to everyone he encountered. Mark played tennis for SMU where he was an All American. Throughout his tennis career, Mark was able to travel the world and had stories to entertain...
Reports of increased mosquito pools testing positive for the presence of West Nile virus this month has prompted the DuPage County Health Department to encourage residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites and the risk of contracting the virus. The health department operates a countywide West Nile virus surveillance program, and recent positive reports from mosquitoes trapped in the county are in line with similar reports of virus activity elsewhere in northeastern Illinois. Residents are encouraged to check the...
Michael J. Tolar, 74, a longtime Willowbrook resident, passed away Aug. 5, 2021, at home. He was born in 1947 in Cicero. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marcia Janice Tolar, nee Daujotas. He is survived by his children, Melissa (Jonathan Ballak) Tolar, Matthew (Erica), Marc, Michael (Rosie) and Mitchell Tolar; his granddaughter, Charlotte Tolar; his siblings-in-law, Kerry and Dominick Galvin; his nephews, Frank and Nick Galvin; and his great-nephew, Sam Galvin. Visitation is from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 13, at...
Richard L. “Dick” Berdelle, 92, of Hinsdale, died Aug. 6, 2021. He was born in 1929 to Edward and Helen, nee McLaughlin, Berdelle. Dick was a 1947 graduate of Leo High School and attended Marquette University and Marquette Law School, graduating in 1953. He spent most of his legal career with the Pretzel and Stouffer law firm in Chicago as a senior and managing partner. In his day, he was known as one of the top personal injury trial lawyers in Chicago and served as a past president of two highly respected professional ass...
Jeanette Ann Hilsabeck, née Miller, 97, a longtime Hinsdale resident, died at Oak Trace Health Center in Downers Grove on Aug. 6, 2021. She was born in 1924 in Independence, Iowa, to her Rodney and Ella Miller, née Arnold. Jeanette graduated from Coe College with a degree in music in 1945 and married Robert "Bob" Burke Hilsabeck shortly after he graduated from the United States Naval Academy. In 1956 they settled in Hinsdale, where Jeanette used her beautiful soprano voice i...
No question, Hinsdale is demolishing the stories that reside in its old homes. The village is in the throes of a building boom. Lots of stone and brick delivered to job sights. Loads of slate roofing and copper downspouts, too. Weird little dormers sticking out of slate roofs. Massive ground to roofline windows reflecting multi-story staircases. Some of the homes that are being built seem to possess a design that, in my opinion, is cookie-cutter and lacks a certain aesthetic beauty. It seems doubtful that in 100 years, these...
I'm in a mood - and not a good one. I read the papers, look on the internet, get in my car, watch TV, and it seems almost everywhere I go, people are in a mood too. The world is supposedly ending (due to disease or global warming, take your pick), people have decided they no longer need to be civil to one another, much less help each other, and the people we've elected to government offices have largely made everything divisive, attempting to sway people to "their side." My...
I walked into a meeting last week, grabbed a chair and settled in. At some point, I noticed I couldn't quite recognize the person sitting next to me because she was wearing a mask. I looked around and came to the realization that everyone was wearing a mask. I was the only maskhole! Fortunately, I had one in my purse and quickly put it on. I was more prepared when I went to get my haircut a couple of days later. There, it turned out, masks were not in wide use. These moments...
The start of school is around the corner. Unfortunately, it will again begin under the cloud of COVID-19. Thankfully this year, unlike in 2020, a majority of the population has been vaccinated, a crucial step in limiting the spread and preventing serious and potential deadly cases. The newly inoculated include many middle school and high school students age 12 and older for whom the Pfizer vaccine was approved. According to Illinois Department of Public Health statistics Wednesday, DuPage County leads the state with almost...
The north end of Hinsdale felt more rural than suburban when Virginia Feller and her husband, Bernie, moved there in the 1950s. "This was like a country town then," said the 102-year-old Feller. "The Salt Creek Club was a meadow." The village could boast at having three grocery stores, three drug stores, a bank "and reasonably priced clothing stores with nice merchandise," she noted. Just as today, one just had to make sure not to exceed the downtown parking limit. "They had...
For many parents, a child's impending high school graduation is filled with anticipation of what is to come. But as Matt Friedman approached the end of his years at Hinsdale Central High School, his parents worried about what the future had in store. Diagnosed with autism, Matt lacked the social skills and executive functioning needed for a traditional college experience, said his dad, Hinsdale resident David Friedman. But he knew his son had skills that would be valuable in t...
Rino Burdi said 24 W. Hinsdale Ave. is the perfect fit for Burdi Clothing shop. "It's like my man cave," he said with a smile. Burdi started in the menswear business with his father at the flagship shop in Chicago. He said the Hinsdale space, which opened last September, is three times the size of the downtown store but has just half the merchandise. "This is just meant to be a little more relaxed and easy. Not in your face," Burdi remarked. Open is the feeling of the store,...
Playing around - Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," shows a photo of Burns Field after its 1938 completion. This view is from Monroe Street looking east. The park was named for Village President Randall Burns who died in office, stricken at a village board meeting. 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 at 7 W. First St. or email it to [email protected]...
A truck and trailer, carrying a Bobcat loader, flipped over Thursday afternoon on Route 83 just south of the Burlington railroad bridge, shutting down traffic at times. Four people were in the truck but only the driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Traffic was stopped while workers turned the truck and trailer right side up to tow them away. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
