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This week is National Newspaper Week. Surprisingly, I don't receive flowers or cards from friends and relatives. Just kidding. Most people probably aren't even aware of the week, but it's important to us. The theme of this, the 81st annual National Newspaper Week, is "Community Forum," and it's connected to The Relevance Project, a national effort intended to speed the resurgence of community newspapers in North America. We are fortunate that since we launched The Hinsdalean...
After last year's event was held virtually, runners took back to the streets Sunday morning in the village. With more than 800 registrants, the Rotary expected to raise almost $100,000. The funds benefit local charities including, The Community House, Rotary Club of Hinsdale Foundation, District 181 Foundation, Hinsdale Hospital Foundation and Ray Graham Association. This was the 27th year for the Rotary Run. Turn to Page 51 for results. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
October is Sudden Cardiac Awareness month. Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death of student athletes and death on campuses. One child dies every hour, every day from an undetected heart defect. We serve as junior board members on the just1mike foundation. The foundation was created to honor Michael Brindley, a Hinsdale Central student who suffered sudden cardiac death in 2016, playing basketball at 16 years old. The mission of the foundation is raise awareness and survival rates in teens/young adults through...
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...
Eighteen Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 16 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported two new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 2,061, compared to 2,043 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had four confirmed COVID-19 patients and no patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Hinsdale Central High School, reported no positive cases, 11 in isolation and two in...
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...
Twenty-seven Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 25 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported two new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 2,043, compared to 2,016 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had four confirmed COVID-19 patients and no patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Hinsdale High School District 86, reported five positive cases, 37 in isolation and 7...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: grading practices, efficacy of G-level classes, summer school report, school maintenance grant application Hinsdale Historic Preservation Commission 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: public meetings on 419 S. Oak St. (new single-family home) and 33 E. First St. (Frederick Lynn Haberdasshere), Robbins Park...
Topping the silver anniversary of an event can be tough to do - especially if a global pandemic strikes. After a successful 25th Rotary Run Charity Classic in 2019, organizers had to move to a virtual event in 2020 due to COVID-19. The run is back in person this year, and organizers aren't the only ones who are excited. "When we really began working on the marketing back in March, we've noticed a tremendous desire to get back to whatever normal is," said Tom Norton, Rotary...
Hinsdale’s Katherine Legge Memorial Park may soon become home to the village’s first dedicated dog park. At a special parks and recreation commission meeting Sept. 14, commissioners heard a plan to create a 3.35-acre fenced area in the southwest corner of KLM for dogs and their owners. Users would need to register to enter the gated space, but the facility would be available during park hours instead of just the limited morning and evening hours off-leash dogs are currently allowed in the park, village officials said. “It...
PUBLIC SAVESTATION DEDICATED The first 24/7 accessible SaveStation with life-saving AED in Hinsdale was dedicated Sept. 21 at Burns Field Park in Hinsdale. The station was donated by the Just1Mike Foundation in honor of Michael Brindley, who died of sudden cardiac arrest at age 16. His family are former Hinsdale residents and Mike was a frequent user of the park. “The village is excited and honored to be the recipient of this public access SaveStation with AED,” said Heather Bereckis, superintendent of parks and recreation. ...
The Hinsdale Central Hall of Fame will induct three members from the Class of 2021 and six from the Class of 2020 tonight, Sept. 30, at its dinner at Ruth Lake Country Club. The annual event has taken place every year since the inaugural class was inducted in 1997 - with the exception of last year, when the pandemic forced its cancellation. The 2021 inductees are • Tomi Adeyemi Adeyemi is a 2011 Hinsdale Central High School graduate who received an honors degree in English l...
9U Falcons STILL UNDEFEATED The Falcons traveled up north to face the Elk Grove Village Eagles for a week five match up The Falcons started uncharacteristically sloppy and were forced to punt for the first time this year by the Eagles. After the punt, the Falcons’ defense decided to get the train back on track. A Luke Lieberenz tackle liberated the ball. Ben Murphy quickly pounced on the loose pigskin, giving the Falcons a fumble recovery. After a nice drive, Michael Kipnis opened the scoring with a short touchdown run. B...
Mike Slonoff is getting married tomorrow. Fifteen years ago, when his father, Jim, and I started this paper, he was a senior at Hinsdale Central. We’d see him in the halls while we were working on a story (why wasn’t he in class, Jim would wonder) or spot him in uniform on the sidelines while covering a football game. Mike’s little brother, Matt, was a second-grader at Madison School in 2006. Now he’s a petty officer second class in the U.S. Navy. Fifteen years ago my daughter, Ainsley, had yet to be born. I lived in a differ...
Thirty Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 27 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported three new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 2,016, compared to 1,986 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had five confirmed COVID-19 patients and no patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Hinsdale High School District 86, reported seven positive cases, 57 in isolation and 10 in...
Hinsdale Village Board Among other business at Tuesday’s meeting, trustees: • agreed to award the 2021 50/50 sidewalk project to Suburban Concrete in an amount not to exceed $84,860. The board will take an official vote on the contract Oct. 5. • agreed to spend up to $169,854 with George’s Landscape for the Irma Butler Tot Lot rebuild, pending an official vote at the Oct. 5 meeting. The tot lot is located in the southwest corner of Robbins Park. • awarded design and construction observation engineering services to HR Green in...
An early Frank Lloyd Wright design on County Line Road in Hinsdale was saved from potential demolition after being purchased last week by preservationists. The 1894-built Frederick Bagley House at 121 S. County Line Road was bought, as announced in a press release from the Chicago-based Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, by Conservancy board member Safina Uberoi and her husband, Lukas Ruecker. They intend to restore the Dutch Colonial as a specimen of the early years of...
The friendly confines - Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," mentions how popular baseball was in the village. "The town baseball team about 1923 is shown 'at the end.' There were American Legion teams and church teams as well. Union Church fielded a team, as did the Lutherans. During the summer months, men's teams practiced every night of the week for weekend games that had a few hundred Hinsdaleans turn our to watch."...
Residents who were hoping to get a slice of pizza or a burger at the Hinsdale Oasis one last time before it closed are out of luck. After being told the portion of the oasis that extends over Interstate 294 would close at the end of the month, the date was moved up, assistant village manager Brad Bloom told The Hinsdalean. “We were notified yesterday that the Tollway planned to close the oasis at the close of business yesterday,” he said Tuesday. The Tollway notified the village as soon as it was made aware of the clo...
What does the American Legion do for vets? Last weekend's 20th anniversary 9/11 commemorations reminded Americans both of the tremendous loss suffered and the stirring acts of heroism exhibited in the face of unimaginable terror, an occasion now observed as Patriots Day. Today, Sept. 16, is also a tribute to patriots. American Legion Day marks the 1919 birth of the oldest veterans organization in the U.S. Hinsdale American Legion Post 250 was among the first chapters, then...
Kevin M. Quinlan, 54, of Oak Brook died Sept. 7, 2021. A one-time resident of Ireland while working as a marketing executive with Coca-Cola, Kevin was especially appreciative of his time there, where he helped launch Fanta, welcomed his first-born child and maintained a strong Irish heritage. After finally settling in Oak Brook and bringing his daughter into the world, Kevin became a devoted civil servant and was very proud of his tenure as Village President from 2003-07. He...
The village of Hinsdale and the Just1Mike Foundation will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and dedication of the first 24/7 SaveStation public access defibrillator at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, at Burns Field, 320 N. Vine St. The station is being dedicated in honor of Michael Brindley, who died of sudden cardiac arrest at age 16. The family are former residents of Hinsdale and Mike was a frequent user of Burns Field. His mom, Kristy, will fly in from California to attend the ceremony. A CPR demonstration by the Hinsdale Fire...
Thirty-four new Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 32 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported two new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 1,986, compared to 1,952 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had six confirmed COVID-19 patients and no patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokesman said. Hinsdale High School District 86, reported six positive cases, 42 in isolation and 10...
The autumnal equinox at 2:20 p.m. Sept. 22 heralds the arrival of what some — including many at this newspaper — believe to be the best season of the year: fall. Yes, we know some have labeled Sept. 1 as the start of “meteorological” fall, but we are traditionalists and lovers of words like “equinox.” Plus, with temperatures in the 80s and 90s most days the past two weeks, we think that designation was a bit premature. Anyway, actual fall will arrive next week. And we can’t think of a better place than Hinsdale to enjoy this...
As part of an ongoing exploration of ways to protect the town’s historic homes, Hinsdale officials are considering initiatives to give restoration an edge over demolition. Speaking at a joint meeting of the village trustees and village preservation commissioners Tuesday night, village planner Bethany Salmon discussed incentives such as a historic preservation fund and historic facade improvement rebate program. The preservation fund could provide grant funding for exterior improvements to historic buildings, Salmon e...
