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Nancy Pollak, who served as president of the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board from May 2019 to May 2020, resigned from the board effective July 1. She and her family are permanently relocating to a home they own in Michigan. Pollak had expected to finish her term in 2021 before moving, but the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 altered her plans, she told The Hinsdalean. “We’ve already spent 100 days (in Michigan) this year. It just seemed to make sense,” she said. Asked if her decision was prompted by happenings in th...
FIREFIGHTERS EARN HARTMANN AWARD Six members of the Hinsdale Fire Department recently received the Hartmann Award from the Good Samaritan Hospital EMS System for their efforts to save a man on Aug. 6, 2019. They are Chief/paramedic John Gianelli, Capt./paramedic Michael Neville, Lt./paramedic Andrew Ziemer and firefighter/paramedics Douglas Niemeyer, Patrick Schaberg and Michael Wilson. The fire department was dispatched for a man trapped in a storm drain on a berm about 30 feet off the road who was not breathing. The patient...
Hinsdale police are alerting residents to a number of auto burglaries that have taken place in Hinsdale in the past week. • A handgun valued at $600 was taken from a vehicle parked in the driveway in the 100 block of South County Line Road between 11 a.m. June 23 and 8:30 a.m. June 24. • A $100 cooler, $100 laptop, $250 computer, $80 headphones, two external hard drives valued at $100, a computer mouse and keyboard and about $5 in change was taken from an unlocked vehicle parked in a driveway in the 400 block of West Hic...
A total of 193 Hinsdale residents have confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 30, compared to 184 a week ago. The DuPage County Health Department reported 181 confirmed cases in Hinsdale and the Cook County Health Department reported 12 confirmed cases in the village. A total of 168 confirmed cases and 32 deaths are associated with ManorCare in Hinsdale, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Those numbers include residents and staff who might not be DuPage County residents. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had five...
Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 8 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: findings and recommendations on proposed moratorium, continued public hearing on Ryan senior housing development at Ogden and Adams (contingent on submittal of updated plans)...
The man convicted of killing Andrea Urban in the kitchen of her Hinsdale home on May 4, 2017, was sentenced Tuesday to natural life in prison. In sentencing Dominic Sanders of University Park, DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Brian Telander agreed with the jury that the murder was exceptionally brutal and heinous and indicative of wanton cruelty, the legal standard for imposing natural life. A jury in January found Sanders guilty of first-degree murder, home invasion and residential burglary. Telander disagreed with the...
Community Consolidated District 181 Board members approved a tentative 2020-21 budget that projects a $2.2 million surplus in the district’s operating fund as well as healthy balance sheets through 2025. At Monday’s board meeting, Chief Financial Officer Mohsin Dada presented a budget of $71.3 million in revenue and $64.4 million in expenses. That compares with last year’s figures of $69.6 million and $65 million, respectively. Of the $6.8 million excess in operating funds, $4.5 million will be transferred to other accounts....
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker announced a new tool to track county-by-county progress in the fight against the novel coronavirus Thursday, but as the state readied to enter the next phase of reopening, he also warned that he would not hesitate to move certain regions backward if progress subsides. The announcement came as the Illinois Department of Public Health announced 894 new cases of COVID-19 over the previous 24 hours, the most since June 6 when there were 975 reported. But IDPH also announced there were 31,686 t...
Friday night at the movies - The Hinsdale Park and Recreation Department's drive in movie at Katherine Legge Memorial Park sold out Friday night. With perfect weather, the "drive in" parking lot was full. The kids had comfy seats - from lawn chairs to the back of SUVs - and plenty of treats to enjoy the showing of "The Secret Life of Pets 2." Getting ready for the show are Shreyas and Arjun Nath, Evie and Carter Pearson, Jack Enright, James Frankel and Sam Pesdi, and Adeline,...
COLLEGE STUDENTS ON DEANS LIST Several Hinsdale students have earned a place on the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities for the spring 2020 semester. Cameron Anderson, University of Alabama* Ekatarina Antipov, University of Alabama Nick Becker, Marquette University Olivia Berley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kayla Cameron, Iowa State University Evan Cotton, Northern Illinois University Emma Dillard, University of Wisconsin-Madison Christian Early, Denison University Hannah Eichelman, Marquette U...
A total of 184 Hinsdale residents have confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 23, compared to 181 a week ago. The DuPage County Health Department reported 173 confirmed cases in Hinsdale and the Cook County Health Department reported 11 confirmed cases in the village. A total of 168 confirmed cases and 31 deaths are associated with ManorCare in Hinsdale, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Those numbers include residents and staff who might not be DuPage County residents. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had seven...
With a few new rules in place, the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce 44th annual Farmers Market returned to town this month. And while masks are required and a few food vendors aren't yet able to open, the market is up and running Mondays through Oct. 12. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
Christina Vasquez pauses for a moment while creating a picture for Stockholm Objects on Washington Street. Several Hinsdale merchants chose to board up their stores earlier this month while marchers were protesting the killing of George Floyd. Stockholm Objects decided to turn its plywood into a mural. Vasquez, a former employee, returned home from Spain, where she was teaching art, when COVID-19 cases began to spike there earlier this year. (Jim Slonoff ph...
Trinity Sober Living is no longer limited to nine residents in its sober house in Hinsdale, following a June 10 order issued by Judge Brian Diamond of the DuPage County 18th District Circuit Court. The court originally stayed all litigation in the case to allow the federal court to rule on the issues of preemption after Trinity filed a federal lawsuit in November claiming the village of Hinsdale is discriminating against residents of the The Sober House at 111 N. Grant St. “The court was led to believe, at that time, that t...
Hinsdale High School District 86 is looking for a new chief human resources officer following the resignation of Domenico Maniscalco. The school board accepted his resignation at a special meeting June 18. When contacted Tuesday via text, Maniscalco told The Hinsdalean that he sent an email to Superintendent Tammy Prentiss Monday rescinding his resignation. He was under the impression it would be the subject of a board vote at tonight’s meeting. Prentiss said that is not the case. “It is not a board agenda item for this Thu...
Community Consolidated District 181 Among other business Monday, board members: • approved the three-year purchase of the Actively Learn digital curriculum platform for middle school language arts classes at a cost of $43,120. Actively Learn will be implemented during the 2020-21 school year after having been piloted at Hinsdale and Clarendon middle schools from January to March. Officials said the resource will support literacy instruction at the schools and provides pre-existing content and the ability for teachers to u...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, June 25 https://www.d86.hindale86.org/virtual On the agenda: approved FY2020-21 tentative budget, 2019-20 budget amendment public hearing, Recovery-Revitalization-Restored Committee update, board committee appointments Hinsdale Historic Preservation Commission 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 1 https://www.villageofhinsdale.org...
Procession from the past - Ralph Homann sent us this photo from Memorial Day 1957. The Hinsdale Township High School band was marching along Washington Street near Chicago Avenue. 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]....
This summer, Ronan Martin had planned to celebrate his graduation from Hinsdale Central High School with a trip to Spain with dad Chris, walking the 220-kilometer road know as the "Camino" from Porto to Santiago. The trip had to be canceled due to COVID-19, and it isn't the only one the Martins missed out on this year. Political unrest precluded a journey to Lebanon in March, and the alternative destination of Brazil was ruled out due to the pandemic. Fortunately, the...
Opinions are mixed on a proposed moratorium on the demolition of historic homes in Hinsdale. The Hinsdale Plan Commission began a public hearing on Zoom June 10 on the possible 180-day ban, which would forbid the demolition of a single-family home or building with landmark designation or that was deemed historically significant or contributing in the 1999 Hinsdale Reconnaissance Survey by Historic Certification Consultants. That survey was a point of contention for some opponents. “The 1999 survey was clearly o...
The Hinsdale Community Pool is poised to open next week after village officials determined the potential loss in revenue from COVID-19 restrictions was outweighed by the community benefit the facility provides. Heather Bereckis, superintendent of parks and recreation, said June 22 is the target date for opening, provided all preparations have been completed. With Illinois under Phase 3 guidelines at least until June 26, the pool will be available only for swim clubs and lap swimming. If the state does move into Phase 4 next...
Boundaries. Created for safety, in some cases. Others, as Grant Glowiak and a team from Union Church of Hinsdale discovered, may be subtle instruments of segregation. Glowiak, director of youth ministries at Union Church, traveled with two other adult leaders and three high schoolers to Baltimore from June 7-16, 2019, to better understand the inner-city's racial, social, economic and political dynamics. A couple of days after arriving, the group was taken on a "social justice...
Planes from the past - Susan Peterson passes along this photo that her husband Al's father took in 1927. The plane was piloted by Col. Charles Lindbergh and flew over the Chicago area, landing at the Chicago Municipal Airport, now called Midway. 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]....
After listening to input from Hinsdale trustees in January, representatives from Ryan Companies appeared before the village's plan commission last week with a revised proposal for a senior housing development at Ogden Avenue and Adams Street. "We've listened to the village board and we've updated our plans based on the feedback that we received," said Dave Erickson, vice president of real estate development for Ryan Companies, during a June 10 public hearing on the concept,...
Fountain of youth - Ava Grzelakowski and her cousins spent Monday morning at the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce Farmers Market and Burlington Park. The fountain seems to have been her favorite part of the trip into town. The farmers market is held each Monday from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. through October. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
