The Elmhurst Police Department recently reported the following arrests and citations. Persons charged with domestic battery are not named in order to protect the privacy of victims. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a conviction, and that subjects are considered innocent unless proven guilty in a court […]
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10/21/21 Print Versions
Warriors improve to 26-0
Senior Man, Senior Woman of the Year named
Lombard/Villa Park obituaries—October 14
CHRISTINA J. ALVIS Christina J. Alvis, age 53, of Warrenville, formerly of Wheaton, died on Oct. 7, 2021. Services are pending at Brust Funeral Home, 135 S. Main Street, Lombard. Info: www.brustfuneralhome.com or 888-629-0094. KEVIN PATRICK QUAID Kevin Patrick Quaid, 57, passed away peacefully on September 27, 2021. He died […]
Lombard Police investigate reports of theft, fraud related to stolen mail
The Lombard Police Department is investigating reports of theft and fraud related to stolen mail from collection boxes located outside the Lombard Post Office. Over the past two months, collection boxes outside of the Lombard Post Office have been broken into on two occasions resulting in the theft of mail […]
Bryan Middle School honored for positive learning environment; Receive prestigious ‘Thrive Award’
Bryan Middle School was awarded GreatSchools.org’s Thrive Award. The award recognizes schools that demonstrate positive learning environments for students and staff. Winners are chosen based on student and teacher responses to a state-wide survey that assesses a school’s leadership, teaching culture, academics, family engagement, and learning environment. Research shows that […]
Addison Library presents its ‘Superfans’
Thanks to library, reader finds research materials, oldie films, more [Ed. note: Today the Addison Independent and the Addison Public Library brings the third in a series of stories about patrons of the Addison Public Library who are known as ‘Superfans.’ This effort is to spotlight Library Card Sign-up Month. […]
YDAP names York ‘Dukes of Distinction’ for 2021; Six to be honored Nov. 4
The York Distinguished Alumni Program (YDAP) announces its honorees for 2021. These “Dukes of Distinction” are exemplary alumni who have made significant and/or extraordinary accomplishments, service, and an outstanding contribution to society. In 2013, Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205 launched the York Distinguished Alumni Program. The honorees for 2021 […]
DAR Chapter rededicates finial relic from Great Chicago Fire
By Dee Longfellow For The Elmhurst Independent Friday, Oct. 8 marked 150 years since the Great Chicago Fire began, and Elmhurst has the distinction of owning and displaying a real artifact—a finial from the top of the Cook County Courthouse in downtown Chicago, one of the few structures that remained […]
