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The sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade Hinsdale Middle School bands presented a fall concert Nov. 17. Each individual band performed several selections. Sixth-graders Timothy Warren and Ella Massery play the trumpet. Seventh-grader Olivia Giannini is on the tuba. Fellow seventh-graders Jack Berube, Zetian Wang, Abigail Forsythe, Isabelle Head and Anijah Noblin play clarinet. Alex Nemeth is a percussionist for the seventh-grade band. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
A 38-year-old Hinsdale man was taken into custody Nov. 22 in the 700 block of South County Line Road by members of the Cook County Sheriff’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit assigned to the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Task Force. Nerijus Tautvydas was wanted for multiple charges out of Lithuania, including criminal association, unlawful possession of narcotics, smuggling and criminal liability for treaty crimes, according to a spokesman from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. He was taken into custody without incident and...
The Hinsdale Fire Department is once again teaming up with the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association and neighboring fire departments in the “Keep the Wreath Red” program. This year, the program began Thanksgiving Day and continues through Monday, Jan. 9. “Keep the Wreath Red” is a holiday fire safety program designed to increase fire safety awareness. A holiday wreath hangs just inside the Hinsdale Fire Station’s Mini Museum, which is the small building located near the entrance way of the main fire station at 121 Symonds D...
The village’s annual fall leaf pick-up program continues through Dec. 5. The program is designed to keep village streets cleaner and safer and to help keep leaves out of sewers and storm drains. The village provides free, unlimited weekly curbside collected of leaves in kraft paper yard waste bags. Plastic bags will not be picked up. Pick-up runs is complimentary and occurs in conjunction with regularly-scheduled weekly yard waste pick-up by Republic Services. Bagged leaves should be placed in the parkway along the curb by 6...
Hinsdale police issued an alert Wednesday afternoon warning residents of a pattern of auto burglaries and auto thefts occurring in nearby jurisdictions. The incidents are similar to ones that have occurred over the last several years, in which offenders walk up and down residential streets, checking vehicles in driveways to see if they are unlocked with the key fobs left inside. Burr Ridge police reported that last Saturday near 91st and Madison streets at least one of the offenders checking cars was holding a firearm. In the...
Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission special meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: bench donations and plaque verbage, 2022 aquatics report, 2023 tentative meeting schedule Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6 Hinsdale Public Library 20 E. Maple St. www.hinsdalelibrary.info On the draft agenda: approve FY23 budget, FY23 tax levy resolution, per capita grant, compensation benchmarking proposal, strategic plan, p...
The DuPage County Health Department reported five new cases of COVID-19 in Hinsdale over the past week, bringing the total number of cases in the DuPage County portion of Hinsdale to 4,287, compared to 4,282 last week. The Cook County Health Department no longer reports on cases specific to Hinsdale. The number of cases per 100,000 population in DuPage remained at 14.1 on Nov. 29, with no change since Nov. 21. The community level rose to medium. District 181 reported nine new positive cases from Nov. 22-29, including six...
Before Anna Fiascone was a real estate agent, she was a real estate attorney. The knowledge she gained in law school and four years in practice serves her well as a member of the Hinsdale Plan Commission. "It kind of keeps that part of my brain working," said Fiascone, who has lived here since 2008. Christmas for the Fiascones will involve attending one of the live nativity services at Hinsdale Covenant Church followed by dinner at the Hinsdale Golf Club on Christmas Eve and...
Early golf - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," is of the club house at Ruth Lake. "Ruth Lake Country Club, shown about 1940, was founded in 1922 by some younger men in the village who had used this site along South Madison Street for hunting, camping and skate sailing. The club was named for Linus Ruth, a boyhood friend of the founders, who lost his life in World War I."...
Just in the nick of time, a team of young painters was dispatched to Santa's workshop and North Pole post office in Burlington Park. The DiCosla Group in Hinsdale provided the much-needed paint along with painters Guilliamme Botha, Christopher Fry and Ernest Zhang. Santa will be on duty to kick off the holiday season Friday night for the Christmas Walk, which begins at 5 p.m. Please turn to Page 17 for complete details. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board awarded more than $5 million in bids last week for the final phase of the $140 million renovation project voters approved in an April 2019 referendum. The bids include most of the work to renovate and upgrade 89 classrooms at Hinsdale Central next summer. The nine bids awarded at the Nov. 17 meeting are for • electrical work, $2.8 million • flooring, $519,000 • general trades, $396,500 • demolition, $355,225 • acoustical ceiling, $306,475 • drywall and rough carpentry, $264,000 ...
Oak School dad Geoff Klein scooped up daughters Marie and Gretta when the music played during the annual Daughters Dance at Oak School Nov. 11. With a DJ and photo booth and bounce house along with plenty of treats, the girls had a wonderful evening with their dads. Please turn to Page 16 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
The Oak School daughters dance was filled with activities, food and fun. Marco Piemonte and his daughter, Alexa, take a selfie. Cecilia Nixon and dad Glen took a cupcake break. Dustin Locatelli shines a little light on daughter Dana's manicure. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
The DuPage County Health Department reported 11 new cases of COVID-19 in Hinsdale over the past week, bringing the total number of cases in the DuPage County portion of Hinsdale to 4,282, compared to 4,271 last week. The Cook County Health Department no longer reports on cases specific to Hinsdale. The number of cases per 100,000 population in DuPage was 14.1 on Nov. 21, compared to 13.3 on Nov. 16. The community level has dropped to low. District 181 reported five new positive cases from Nov. 16-19, including three...
Hinsdale’s 150th anniversary is coming up and a group of village staffers and community members have some big ideas on how to celebrate it. The village was incorporated on April 1, 1873, and members of the 150th Anniversary Committee hope to commemorate the event in a variety of ways. One option is to create a new patio on the south side of the Memorial Building, facing Chicago Avenue and Burlington Park. “We want to reconstruct the plaza, rededicate the plaza as something memorable for the community and also provide opp...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board: Among other business Nov. 17, board members: • voted 7-0 to approve a resolution estimating the 2022 corporate and special purposes property tax levy at $94.9 million, a 5.8 percent increase over last year. The board will hold a public hearing on the levy at its Thursday, Dec. 15, meeting. • had a first look at the staffing framework for the 2023-24 school year from Cheryl Moore, assistant superintendent of human resources. The district has been notified that 39 teachers are pla...
The village’s annual fall leaf pick-up program continues through Dec. 5. The program is designed to keep village streets cleaner and safer and to help keep leaves out of sewers and storm drains. The village provides free, unlimited weekly curbside collected of leaves in kraft paper yard waste bags. Plastic bags will not be picked up. Pick-up runs for a total of six weeks in conjunction with regularly-scheduled weekly yard waste pick-up by Republic Services. Leaf pick-up is complimentary; other yard waste will require a y...
The Hinsdale Village Board, Community Consolidated District 181 Board and Hinsdale High School District 86 Board are not scheduled to meet the week of Nov. 26-30....
Hinsdale's Jim Prisby relishes raising his own brood in the community where he grew up. The village native is husband to Lisa and dad to Andrew, pursuing a career in medicine; Christopher, studying construction management at Purdue University; and Sarah, a senior at Nazareth Academy. He's also kept his professional life close to home, operating Caprio Prisby Architectural Design firm with his partner right in the downtown. Jim also serves as a historic preservation...
Preferred provider - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," is of the Beckwith estate. "Troubled by chronic war wounds, Civil War veteran Charles Kimball was a patient of Dr. David Paulson, a Chicago physician associated with Michigan's Battle Creek Sanitarium. Kimball persuaded Paulson to open a branch of the sanitarium in Hinsdale on the former Beckwith estate. Located north of the railroad tracks near Oak Street, the 10-acre property was...
The National Honor Society at Hinsdale Central sponsored its annual Stuff the Truck event Friday. Food and personal items were collected for the People's Resource Center. Central students Josh Krames and Caroline Kavanagh helped sort donations during the event. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Students at The Lane school, along with their parents, gathered Friday morning to celebrate Veterans Day. The program began with a flag ceremony before school and concluded with a concert dedicated to the veterans who joined in the event. Griffin Jaris, Lila Danek, Poppy Pickles, Madeline Hendy and Charlotte Nabavian - along with the entire kindergarten and first grade classes - sang "America" to open the event. Please turn to Page 18 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff...
Cleaning up - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," is of the building at 108-110 S. Washington St. "The building still standing at 108-110 S. Washington St. was built in 1925 by tailor Carl Theidel for his business, Hinsdale Cleaners and Dyers. The north side of this building housed this establishment where every sartorial need was satisfied in these tropical surroundings. Pictured are, from left to right, Carl, Harry, and Edwin Theidel in...
Members of the cast of the Hinsdale Dance Academy's "Nutcracker" brought some scenes from the ballet to life at the Hinsdale Public Library Nov. 5. Melissa Gramman read a book to the children before members of the cast performed. Sugar Plum Fairy Willa Gramman, posed for pictures after the show. Please turn to Page 19 for more information an area performances of the "Nutcracker." (Jim Slonoff photos)...
Hinsdale police are looking for a few good men — and women — to apply for one of two open officer positions with starting pay of $75,885. “We’re aggressively recruiting because the market is so slim,” Chief Brian King said. “We started to see a downward trend during the last cycle.” The department typically recruits officers every two years. Over his 36 years in law enforcement, King has seen cycles with 200 applicants seeking one or two positions. “In our last cycle, I think we had 60 applicants for four positions. We’r...
