Explore Hinsdale’s Halloween history, from rowdy pranks to safer celebrations, and how strict curfews ended the town's notorious "Horrid Hal

The origin of Hinsdale’s street names contains a great deal of Hinsdale history. Unlike many towns, Hinsdale does not have a Main Street...

Heinrich August Adolph Weidig, known as Adolf Weidig, was a well-known and successful composer and musician.

Fullersburg Woods, now part of the DuPage Forest Preserve system, owes most of its current ambiance to the work performed in the 1930s by...

Fullersburg School, also called Brush Hill School, was built by Lieutenant Sherman King in 1853 at the north end of Garfield Street,...

William Robbins, born in 1824, founded Hinsdale in 1865 after buying 640 acres. He planned the village and planted trees that still line the

244 East First Street was built in 1893. It was a rare Chicago example of work by the architectural firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.

241 East First Street was built in 1887 for Robert and Mary Clarke, who named their home “Fairlawn,” and designed by architect “G. Isaacson”

Enos Melancthon Barton (1842-1916) was an engineer and industrialist whose life story is a testament to the transformative power of innovati

Before Hinsdale came to be, most of the original territory was treeless.  The only trees were a belt of oaks across the county line...

Sometimes people refer to the entire area east of County Line Road between 47th and 55th Streets, bounded on the east by the Illinois...

14-16 West Hinsdale In 1927, this lot of cars became the new Hinsdale Post Office, which was designed by Hinsdale architect R. Harold...

Henry Alanson Gardner was born on 7 September 1845 to Henry A. Gardner Sr. and Sarah Rice Morgan1 in Lisbon, Kendall County, Illinois.2...

Fullersburg Cemetery is a private cemetery located at the north end of Garfield.  In 1851 Benjamin Fuller donated the land to be used for...

Hinsdale Hose Company No. 1, the progenitor of the Hinsdale Fire Department, was formally organized in 1886 with Deming H. Preston as its...

Let's take a look this time at the Hinsdale Club, which was on the southwest corner of First and Garfield until the mid-fifties. The club...

112-114 South Washington Street are two commercial properties in one building. Originally, the building housed three commercial...

Last month we received an inquiry from a homeowner. This isn’t so uncommon, however, this homeowner owns a house in Weaverville, NC.

Flagg Creek Water Reclamation District–we all send our money there. Some residents probably don’t know the creek still flows in Hinsdale.

John Samuel Coe was born on 28 November 1815 in Ramapo, Rockland County, New York.[1] He was the son of Samuel and Mary Conklin Coe, who...