Hinsdale News Archives

The ghosts of Hinsdale's prominent founding members are coming alive on Halloween in the Bronswood Cemetery.

It's still a few days before Halloween, but the Casten family of Hinsdale wants to offer a treat to their neighbors and friends.

With the official filing period beginning next week for candidates interested in running for the 41st House District, a handful of individuals are already knee deep in campaigning.

Wheaton officials last week began reviewing petitions in opposition of a special service tax area in the downtown business section.

SchoolSearch presented its Bright A+ Awards for academic excellence. The following local schools are among the top 5 percent of all Illinois school districts.

Darien Elementary District 61 will have a preschool screening on Nov. 5 at Mark DeLay School, 6801 Wilmette Ave.

It's been 200 years since Jane Austen penned her first novel, Elinor and Marianne , the story of two very different sisters that would become the classic story, Sense and Sensibility .

Still referring to Jim Edgar as the governor, Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-24th, of Hinsdale said he is honored his friend and mentor chose to endorse his gubernatorial campaign.

List Price: $2.699 million Sale Price: $1.400 million The Property: This 27-room house, once priced by its builder at about $4.5 million but sold unfinished and with various contractors' liens against it, was bought on October 2nd by an investor - who put it right back on the market, priced at $2.55 million, on October 5th.

HINSDALE, IL a ' Today, the Patrick Hughes for US Senate campaign released a poll showing that voters in the 10th Congressional District oppose the Waxman-Markey American Clean Trade and Energy Act , better known as a Cap and Trade,a TM and would vote against a candidate who supported the legislation.

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar is set to endorse his former aide, state Sen. Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale, in the crowded Republican primary for the state's top post, according to a GOP source.

Former Republican Attorney General Jim Ryan may be ready to take a second run at the state's top post.

Engineers who invented a brassiere that converts quickly into a gas mask, pathologists who determined that beer bottles can crack your skull even when empty and Irish police officers who mistakenly wrote tickets to "Driver's License" all won spoof "IgNobel" prizes on Thursday.

THEY'LL BE clearing space in the trophy cabinet at the Phoenix Park headquarters this weekend after An Garda Siochana gained dubious international recognition by winning an award at the annual Ig Nobel ceremony in the US.

The nation can hold its head up high. Once again, Britons have been honoured in the annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony, the second most important event on the scientific calendar.

Prizes also went to Zimbabwe for issuing banknotes that ranged in value from one Zimbabwean cent to 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars, to Mexican scientists who made diamonds out of tequila, and to the leaders of four Icelandic banks that suffered spectacular collapses.

Suzyn Mills was a fan of the Acoustic Renaissance Concert series from the first time she attended a performance at Unitarian Church of Hinsdale in 2001.