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Who let the dogs in? - Hinsdale's Park and Rec department held its annual Dog Days of Summer last weekend at the Hinsdale Community Pool. With smaller dogs taking the first shift and larger dogs on the second shift, the pools saw plenty of activity for the last official event of the season. Titus, a Labrador retriever, was all in on the fun. When he isn't frolicking in the water, Titus serves as a Therapaws therapy dog. Please turn to Page 36 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff...
After sitting out the past two election cycles, the Hinsdale Caucus is hoping to gear up for future village, school and library board elections. The caucus, which has been identifying, interviewing and endorsing candidates for local offices since 1934, was sidelined in 2019 due to a shortage of volunteers and in 2021 due to COVID-19. “During the pandemic and the last few years, we basically haven’t run the caucus,” said Nadine Gilbert, the group’s recording secretary. “We haven’t been able to interview candidates....
Hinsdale police arrested three suspects in the Chicago shooting of a 12-year-old boy Tuesday night after a car chase through several suburbs. At the Chicago Police Department’s media briefing Wednesday morning, Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan reported that the boy was walking home from a west side store with his uncle just after 10:30 p.m. when he was shot in the head. A vehicle spotted by Chicago police near the scene of the shooting fled but was followed by a police helicopter. Assistance was requested from suburban l...
Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 Among other business at their meeting Monday, board members: • voted unanimously to join the Lincoln Way Area Affiliation of Participating School District Cooperative to help control insurance costs for the 2023 calendar year. Despite an initial $300,000 cost to join and a $200,000 set aside to run out current claims and an increase in premiums, the move will save the district $100,000. • learned district enrollment this year is 3,608, down from 3,671 last year. Enrollment has...
A potential work stoppage by freight railroad workers beginning tomorrow, Sept. 16, has already led to curtailed Metra service tonight on the BNSF line. According to Metra, BNSF Railway, which operates the line, has canceled tonight’s inbound trains 1296, 1298, 1300 and 1302 (leaving Aurora) and tonight’s outbound trains 1289, 1291 1293 and 1295 (departing Chicago). If the work stoppage occurs, there will be no service Friday on the BNSF, Union Pacific North, Union Pacific Northwest and Union Pacific West lines. In its sta...
The DuPage County Health Department reported 37 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 4,160, compared to 4,123 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 16.7 on Sept. 14, compared to 24.2 on Sept. 6. The community level remains at medium. District 181 reported five positive cases from Sept. 7-12, including three students,...
Hinsdale High School District 86 is on solid ground financially at present board members were told last week, but the path ahead is less clear. At the district’s Sept. 8 committee of the whole meeting, Chief Financial Officer Josh Stevenson gave updated numbers for the 2022-23 spending plan (excluding capital projects) of $129.3 million, with $129.4 in projected revenue, and a forecasted surplus of just under $200,000. Although revenues are projected to dip slightly from FY 2022, corporate replacement tax proceeds are e...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 Hinsdale Central High School, 55th and Grant streets https://d86.hinsdale86.org Hinsdale Village Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. https://www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: changes to village parking ordinances, Historic Overlay District, holiday lighting and decorating contract, IGA with Tollway for stormwater detention Hinsdale Zoning Board of Appeals 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21 Memorial Building, 19 E....
AdventHealth and the University of Chicago Medicine have signed a definitive agreement to enter into an affiliation that will increase access to a spectrum of services, treatment options and cutting-edge clinical trials for residents in Chicago's western suburbs. Under the proposed affiliation, UChicago Medicine will acquire a controlling interest in AdventHealth's Great Lakes Region - which includes its four Illinois hospitals in Hinsdale, La Grange, Bolingbrook and Glendale...
Hinsdale's Seventh-day Adventist Church hosts the Northern Illinois Food Bank's mobile food pantry twice a month. Volunteers from the church and AdventHealth Hinsdale and La Grange hospitals help distribute the food to clients. Kris Veenbaas arranges some fresh lettuce while Bob Forrer and Marcella Salado open up a large bag filled with smaller bags of carrots. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
At least 50 percent of Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 students show greater academic achievement than their peers in comparable districts, a report shows. “For the first time, we have all nine of our buildings in the high growth, high achievement quadrant for both reading and math,” Tracey Miller, director of assessment, instruction and evaluation, told board members at their Monday meeting. “We’re very, very excited about this.” The Similar Schools Insight Report provided by the Northwest Evaluatio...
First park - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," is of the plans for Burns Field. "Burns Field, designed by Edson Nott and local architect R. Harold Zook, was built with few changes from this 1932 plan, the first Hinsdale park with recreational facilities. Public Works Administration funds and Works Progress Administration labor were used for its completion with local men hired for the work."...
Up on a roof - Hinsdale's Brian Williams of Boy Scout Troop 52 led a team of volunteers this summer on an Eagle Scout project to do a clean up and fix up of Ehret Park. His team spent hundreds of hours on the project, replacing floorboards and benches, reroofing and painting the gazebo and weeding and restoring the butterfly garden. Please turn to Page 16 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Hinsdale's Brian Williams' Eagle Scout project was to replace the roof, fix broken and rotten wood and paint the gazebo in Ehret Park. And to give the butterfly garden in the park some much-needed care. The garden was originally designed and installed by a local Girl Scout troop in 2003. From writing a proposal to fundraising to assembling a team of volunteers to doing some of the work himself, Williams spent most of his summer accomplishing his goal. He leaned on his...
Residents are invited to sign up for the Hinsdale Citizen Police Academy, a free, 11-week program designed to give residents and citizens working in Hinsdale a better understanding of law enforcement and the Hinsdale Police Department. Each week provides an in-depth view of different topics, including specialties and departments within the Hinsdale Police Department. This course also provides citizens with an understanding of modern police procedures and an inside look at challenges officers face while serving the community....
The village is poised to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the Illinois Tollway to install an underground stormwater detention system along the 600 block of Harding Road as part of the Interstate 294 expansion project At Tuesday’s village board meeting, trustees held a first read of an agreement under which the Tollway will design and construct an underground detention vault on the site of five properties it acquired in the 600 block of Harding Road. In presenting the plan, Trustee Neale Byrnes said the Tollway o...
The DuPage County Health Department reported 45 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 4,123, compared to 4,078 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 24.2 on Sept. 6, compared to 24.4 on Aug. 30. The community level remains at medium. District 181 reported 18 positive cases from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6, including 12 students,...
Hinsdale High School District 86 is hosting a series of Community Conversations. These events, which are aligned with the work of the Parent-Teacher Advisory Committee, will provide community members with the chance to learn about and discuss topics that are critical to the success of students, staff and schools. The first Community Conversation will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, in the library at Hinsdale Central, 5500 S. Grant St. This session, will be focused on the district’s curriculum alignment work, r. T...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. https://www.d181.org Hinsdale Firefighters Pension Board 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 12 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets, https://d86.hinsdale86.org On the agenda: FY 2023 budget, 2022 levy presentation, school security update Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14 Memorial...
Summer construction projects delayed the start of school at Hinsdale Central, but the new spaces likely impressed students and staff when they returned to class Tuesday. One of the most noticeable is a new entrance along Grant Street, where the old entrance known as the "pool door" used to be. The Grant Street Plaza, as Hinsdale Central Principal Bill Walsh likes to call it, offers a much more appropriate first impression to the many who use this entrance. The area features a...
Park and recreation - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," is of Burlington Park. "Hinsdale's first public landscaping endeavor took place at Burlington Park. After the railroad granted use of the site in 1877, fencing and evergreens were installed, When the new depot was built in 1899, the village acquired the remainder of the block, setting the stage for walkways and flower beds to showcase Hinsdale's "front yard." In this early photograph,...
Members of the Hinsdale Central Poms held a car wash Aug. 20. With several team members cheering on 55th Street to get the attention of passersby, others worked the car wash line with hoses, sponges and towels. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
In response to significantly lower demand for Metra commuter parking as a result of the pandemic, Hinsdale officials are considering changes to regulations to attract lot users and boost revenue. At Tuesday’s village board meeting, Village President Tom Cauley unveiled several staff recommendations prompted by his request for an assessment of village lot use at the Aug. 18 meeting. Village staff reported that commuter permit sales are just 25 percent of the level a couple of years ago and proposed allowing non-Hinsdale r...
Making the shot - Steve Aziz and Colin Parry work on their outside shooting during the Hoop Dreams Camp held in July. The camp was hosted by several varsity players from the Hinsdale Central basketball team. The first hour of camp was basketball drills and scrimmages and the second was in the pool to cool off. Please turn to Page 16 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
