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For the third year in a row, Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members have disagreed about who should lead the board. In 2021, board members spent 2 1/2 hours and took 10 votes before electing Terri Walker president. In 2022, Erik Held was elected president in a split 4-3 vote. And last week, the board chose newly seated board member Cat Greenspon as its leader, with four members voting for her and three voting for Debbie Levinthal. Board member Peggy James nominated Greenspon at the May 3 reorganization meeting. Kay...
SENIOR EARNS MERIT AWARD Annika Geiersbach of Hinsdale, a senior at St. Ignatius College Prep, is one of 840 distinguished high school seniors who have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards. She has received the National Merit Boeing Scholarship. The National Merit Scholarship Corp. recently released the names of the first group of winners in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Scholars were selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship...
April's showers are resulting in a colorful yield of May flowers across the village. And no flower past or present is more associated with Hinsdale than the American Beauty Rose. The rose was declared the village's official flower in a May 2 proclamation celebrating the village's 150th anniversary. According to records in the Hinsdale Historical Society's archives, the brilliant bloom's local roots can be traced back to 1887, when printing company owner Orland Bassett and his...
Community Consolidated School Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, May 15 Hinsdale Middle School 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: kindergarten update, middle school language arts resource recommendation, approval of tentative budget, board committee assignments Hinsdale Economic Development Commission 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 17 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, May 11 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets...
Community groups, families and businesses are invited to participate in the annual Hinsdale Independence Day Parade at 10 a.m. July 4 to help celebrate the village’s 150th anniversary this year. Parade participants are asked to consider floats, music or other pageantry for this year’s parade. There is no charge for community groups and nonprofit organizations to march. The entry fee for businesses is $150. To register, visit www.villageofhinsdale.org and find the 150th Anniversary Celebration tab under “Residents.” Questio...
John Charles Fremont Merrill probably wouldn't recognize today the house Adolph Froscher built for him in 1892 at 222 E. Sixth St. Merrill, secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade, was a native New Yorker who moved to Illinois in 1873 as a grain buyer. After moving to Hinsdale with his family, he went on to serve as a village trustee from 1894-98 and village president from 1902-04. He was prominent in the grain market and a confidential advisor to Herbert Hoover. Years later,...
Hinsdale legacies - The home at 222 E. Sixth St. was built as a Queen Anne in 1892 for John Charles Fremont Merrill but remodeled in the 1940s to its current classical revival style. The home was featured in "Hinsdale the Beautiful: Gem of Chicago Suburbs," published by Campbell's Illustrated Journal in November 1897. The home recently underwent its latest renovation under new owners Lael and Colin Falls. Learn more about the house in this week's installment of the Hinsdale...
Two Chicago men were arrested May 5 on felony charges after leading Hinsdale police in a high-speed chase that ended in Oak Lawn. Metrevell Hutchinson, 21, 713 N. Ada St., and Cobie Vaughn, 20, 7830 S. Oglesby Ave., were each arrested on one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle, a Class 2 felony. Hutchinson also is charged with one count of aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer, a Class 4 felony. At about 1:25 a.m. May 5, a Hinsdale police officer saw a...
Andrea and Adelina Mugnolo did their share of the heavy lifting during St. Isaac Jogues annual Seeds of Service food drive. Hundreds of volunteers collected and sorted thousands of bags of food and paper goods donations from across Hinsdale April 15. Please turn to Page 40 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Deeds for the following properties in Hinsdale and Golfview Hills were recorded in DuPage County from March 28 to April 21. 1. 5531 S. Park Ave., Chicago Title Land Trust Co. to Ayman Al Hendy and Nahed Ismail, March 28, $1,475,000 2. 133 S. Park Ave., Kimberly and John Fikejs to 1st American Bank Trust, March 28, $900,000 3. 820 S. Adams St., John L. Manta Trust to Paula Manta, March 28, $388,000 4. 4. 425 E. Fourth St., Amit and Asha Mehrotra to Cartus Financial Corp. March 29, $2,690,000 5. 425 E. Fourth St., Cartus Financ...
CHMS band invited to superstate The Clarendon Hills Middle School eighth-grade band has been invited to perform at the prestigious University of Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival May 5 at the Krannert Center in Champaign-Urbana. It’s been a decade since a CHMS band has performed at SuperState, with the last appearance in 2013. At SuperState, three classes of high schools are invited to perform, based on school size, but only one middle school class, which makes it extremely competitive and difficult to be chosen at t...
The mood was unusually jovial at Tuesday night's Hinsdale Village Board meeting. "Thank you all for coming," Village President Tom Cauley told the crowd. "Usually when we have this many people in the room it's not a good thing." The village's first official 150th anniversary celebration brought out everyone from residents to former trustees to a U.S. congressman. After conducting regular business (see roundup on Page 6), Cauley read a sesquicentennial proclamation, citing the...
The second floor of 47 S. Washington St. is currently unoccupied and available to lease. Core Remodel moved out last fall. Incorrect information appeared in the April 27 “Once upon a time” caption....
Hinsdale Village Board Among other business at their Tuesday meeting, trustees: • agreed to limit parking in the village deck to six hours, offer purple permits for employees to park in the deck for more than six hours and implement a three-hour time limit on the 15 angled spaces on the drive leading to the deck entrance off Washington Street. Trustees are expected to approve the changes at their May 16 meeting. which would go into effect June 1. • thanked outgoing Trustee Laurel Haarlow for her service to the board sin...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, May 11 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 10 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: public meeting on 5700-5717 Foxgate Lane (new entrance gate for Foxgate subdivision); sign permit...
What lay beneath the stairs at 510 N. Lincoln St.? No beasts, thankfully. But when workers replaced the front and side outdoor steps of the 1911 Craftsman home last December, the excavation yielded beer bottles and a shriveled piece of leather that turned out to be a shoe. Such clues to a bygone era only serve to augment features like the cross-gabled roof, radiator-adorned rooms and rich, well-preserved millwork that stoke owner Katie Gjeldum's passion for vintage properties....
First on the block - The Craftsman-style home at 510 N. Lincoln St. has held its ground and gained neighbors since its 1911 construction as the first home built in that corner of Hinsdale. The land was previously part of the Ayres Farm, sold as development became a more profitable enterprise than farming in the growing suburb. The Gjeldum family purchased the home 10 years ago intent on preserving it while making some 21st-century updates. See the story on Page 5. (photo...
Enrollment at Hinsdale South High School is forecast to continue declining in coming years, raising the potential of changing attendance boundaries to address the growing imbalance between South and Hinsdale Central. At the April 27 Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meeting, board members discussed a report from demographer John Kasarda projecting that South’s enrollment could dip from its current 1,362 students to 1,100 by the 2028-29 school year if housing turnover and arrival of younger families is sluggish. K...
Hinsdale officials and residents are continuing to monitor noise from planes using Midway Airport. Noise complaints for the first quarter of 2023 were down 12 percent compared to the first quarter of 2023, despite a 24 percent increase in operations, Ryan Anderson reported at the April 27 meeting of the Midway Noise Compatibility Commission. Anderson is the managing consultant at Landrum & Brown, an aviation consulting firm. Hinsdale generated 191 of the 686 total complaints f...
The Memorial Building and Police/Fire departments are sporting Hinsdale's Sesquincentennial flags installed last week. With a spring storm providing a bit of dramatic lighting and high winds, the flags were in all their glory April 20. The Hinsdalean continues its year-long coverage of Hinsdale's 150th on Page 7. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
A Hinsdale man was arrested April 18 in Minnesota on four felony counts related to attempted sexual conduct with a minor. Derrick D. Willman, 56, 502 N. Garfield Ave., faces the following charges: attempted criminal sexual conduct, third degree (penetration) with a victim age 14-15; attempted criminal sexual conduct, fourth degree (contact) with a victim age 14-15; soliciting a child or someone believed to be a child through electronic communication to engage in sexual conduct; and engaging in electronic communication...
Early Hinsdale - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," is of Washington Street. "The east side of Washington Street around 1902 reveals several stores still familiar in 2012. The shorter, light colored frame building in the center of the photograph was built in 1881. It is the oldest building standing in Hinsdale's downtown, now home of Phillips' Flowers, at 47 S. Washington St." Core Remodel recently remodeled the second floor and now occupies...
The annual Clarendon Hills Pizza wars were fought last week - and the winner was anyone who showed up to eat pizza! Four vendors - Brama La Pizza, Home Run Inn, Rosati's and Sarpino's - all donated pizza to the event sponsored by the CHMS PTO, serving up more than 500 people. Baker and Willa Guerrero and Manny Delosantos did their best for the fight. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
When the Hinsdale’s parking deck opened in 2020, the pandemic was suppressing activity in the village’s central business district and leaving the new facility’s usage patterns in neutral. Almost three years later, officials have found that the 189 village-controlled lower level spaces are typically filled during prime daytime hours. The investment has paid off, suggested Hinsdale Village President Tom Cauley at the April 18 village board meeting, with central business district merchants and employees parking in the deck...
