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Hinsdale Village Board Among other business Tuesday, trustees: • witnessed the swearing in of two new police officers. Aurora native Thelonious Hicks graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor’s in chemical engineering and previously worked in sales, logistics and commercial real estate. Hicks is married and has two sons, ages 3 and 7 months. Jonathon Wheaton was raised in Lockport and received dual-major degrees in national security and political science from King University. He received his master’s in count...
Fifteen Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 15 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported two new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 3,590, compared to 3,575 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had two confirmed COVID-19 patients and no patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Hinsdale Central High School reported no positive cases as of Feb. 25. The district is no...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, March 10 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: findings and recommendations for 5837 S. Madison St. (Hinsdale Discount Tires and Automotive) and 137 S. Garfield Ave. (Union Church parking lot lighting), sign permit review for 114 S. Washington St. (Sauced Pizzeria) and 16 W. Hinsdale Ave. (Silver...
I've known I was adopted for as long as I can remember. My birth mother loved me so much, my mom would tell me often, that she gave me up to make sure I would have a good home. And she and my dad had picked me to be their daughter. It was a story of love all the way around. As I grew up, my understanding of being adopted deepened. I didn't want to find my birth mother, but I did think about her. I thought about her more after my own daughter was born. And yet I did nothing. I...
Noah Trainor works his way toward the basket during a recent training session at The Community House. Former collegiate and professional players led the campers in improving skills from dribbling to shooting to ball handling. Children from first through eighth grade were able to participate. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
For the first time this school year, Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South students were not required to wear masks this week. The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Friday voted unanimously to make masking optional for students, staff and visitors. Close contact exclusions and testing exclusions also were shifted from required to strongly recommended, but not enforced. The vote came after the board met in closed session. In a subsequent statement, board President Terri Walker and Superintendent Tammy Prentiss said the...
Maple express - You can build up some pretty good speed scootering down east Maple Street. Ellie and Finn Kane spent some of Presidents Day afternoon racing down the hill with their mom, Maureen. The two were enjoying the day off from Oak School Monday and what seems like one of our every other spring days. With any luck the weather will warm up next week for a chance to get back outside. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
The quick thinking of Marcus employees likely prevented a theft Tuesday afternoon. At 1:37 p.m., a group of five individuals wearing masks attempted to enter Marcus at 101 S. Washington St. but were barred at the door. Store employees did an exceptional job noticing a vehicle back up near the front of the store and five individuals get out, mask up and line up to enter the store, Hinsdale Police Chief Brian King said, “I applaud their initiative and that they were immediately able to call the police,” he added. Early des...
Hinsdale Village Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 1 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. https://www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: IGA with Illinois Tollway for emergency water interconnection and water system maintenance, Union Church parking lot lights, refer Ryan Co.’s proposal for Hinsdale Senior Residences and Holladay Properties’ proposal for Vine Street Station to plan commission...
Fifteen Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 15 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department has indicated five previously reported cases were not COVID-19. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 3,575, compared to 3,565 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had one confirmed COVID-19 patients and no patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Hinsdale Central High School reported two positive...
The old Zion Lutheran School will be converted to condos if the Hinsdale Plan Commission and Hinsdale Village Board approve the proposal. Holladay Properties Services Midwest Inc. wants to buy the existing two-story building at 125 S. Vine St. to create 12 age-targeted lifestyle housing units. The project is tentatively named Vine Street Station. "We're really excited to be here tonight," Hinsdale resident Drew Mitchell, vice president of Holladay Properties in Clarendon...
Early downtown — This photo in Sandy Williams’ book, “Images of America — Hinsdale,” was taken on west First Street looking east, almost in front of The Hinsdalean’s office. “In this interesting view of east First Street in 1909, only the Hinsdale State Bank, built eight years earlier, is visible on the south side of the street. Just beyond the bank on First Street, construction activity can be seen on a safety deposit vault annex, ‘to be wired with a burglar alarm, the late...
Music maker - Grace Blank was all in during her Tiny Toes Music class at The Community House earlier this month. With Roberta Wentling leading the children, they were quick to join in on both singing and dancing the morning away. The musical instrument part of the class was a big hit as well. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
State Rep. Deanne Mazzochi (R-47, Elmhurst) is hosting a webinar on COVID-19 and how to move beyond it at 6 tonight, Feb. 17. “COVID is going to become a part of everyday life,” Mazzochi said. “I want to arm people with knowledge to help people return to a sense of normalcy.” Mazzochi will be joined by immunologist Dr. Mia Taormina, CEO Kurt Jose of IndiviDx labs, DuPage County Public Health Emergency Response Supervisor Kristen Lundeen and Dr. Rashmi Chugh of the DuPage County Health Department. The panelists will discuss...
Neil Thomas is a cardiac surgeon. His occupation was listed incorrectly at the top of the “Ask an expert” feature in the Feb. 10 issue....
Hinsdale Firefighters Pension Board 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien https://d86.hinsdale86.org...
Community Consolidated District 181 Board Among other business Monday, board members: • approved a $6.1 million abatement of bond and interest funds for the 2021 tax levy year to reduce the debt service portion of the community’s tax bills. The move follows the board’s abatement strategy that any amount in fund balances over 50 percent of operating expenses should either be restricted for district approval and/or be abated. • approved awarding contracts for summer projects totaling nearly $1.35 million, $304,000 of which w...
Forty-seven Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 47 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported no new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 3,565, compared to 3,518 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had six confirmed COVID-19 patients and no patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Hinsdale Central High School reported two positive cases, 12 in isolation and no one in qu...
When Jackie Pyle of Hinsdale began searching for her birth mother in 1989, the only clue she had was her full maiden name. Resources like ancestry.com and 23andme were yet to be developed. She joined a west suburban chapter of ALMA, the Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association, and began to do the tedious work of piecing together her past. "We lived at the Newberry library," she said, noting her husband Ken, who died in 1995, was a huge help. "Any adoptee could be a private...
Mary Catalano still has "The Chosen Baby" book her parents gave her for Christmas in 1966 to help her understand adoption. "To our chosen baby, precious Mary Margaret. All our love, Mommy + Daddy," its inscription reads. "I've known ever since I was born," Catalano said. "I've always known I was adopted so it was nothing new. I was always open talking about it. It wasn't something I tried to hide." Growing up in Gwynedd Valley, Pa., Catalano didn't have a desire to find her bi...
Some three dozen speakers offered about 2 1/2 hours of public comment during the Feb. 10 Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meeting at which board members voted 5-2 to continue the COVID-19 mitigations approved in August. Many speakers offered impassioned pleas for the board to lift the mask mandate, including several Hinsdale Central students. "We are exhausted from being manipulated and exploited into wearing masks," Central student Sydney Pjesky said. "It's time to...
Full-day kindergarten is poised to launch this fall in Community Consolidated Elementary District 181, at least for some. At Monday night’s meeting, board members were apprised of the proposed D181 Rising Stars Extended Day Kindergarten pilot program for students needing additional academic support. “(The program) is intended for any student in our seven elementary schools who has been identified as having additional needs in the academic areas of literacy or mathematics,” said Kathleen Robinson, assistant super...
Behind the lens - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," captures L.C. Harner on the right. "For decades, the Harner Photography Shop operated at the rear of he Froscher Building. Harner created an extraordinary historic record of Hinsdale through his photographs of the village in the 1920s and 1930s." Many of the photos in Williams' book and several that have run in "Once upon a time" are from Harner....
To mask or not to mask - The answer for the 150 or so people who gathered outside District 181 headquarters Monday in Clarendon Hills was not to mask. With District 181 holding a remote learning day, many children were available to participate in the civics lesson. The demonstration was in support of a Friday decision by a Sangamon County judge that Gov. JB Pritzker's administration overstepped its bounds by issuing mask and vaccine mandates through emergency rules. Please...
Wooden walks - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," mentions the village sidewalk system - or lack of one - in the early days of the village. "Before Hinsdale was incorporated, sidewalks were private projects. If a homeowner wanted one, he had to build the wooden walk himself. After the 1873 incorporation, walks were a popular public improvement; in 1878, the village's largest expense was for sidewalk nails."...
