The Historic Site award is a recognition awarded annually by the Downers Grove Historical Society
This oil on canvas mural in the was commissioned by the Federal Art Project (FAP), a part of the New Deal Era arts project established by then President Franklin D. […]
The Chicago Railroad Center of the Nation Mural Read More »
Pierce Downer, who arrived in 1832, was the village’s first settler. This well, recognized as a Historic Site in 2013, was across from the Downer home, is one of two
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Formerly called Grove Lake, Prince Pond is one of the oldest recreation areas in Downers Grove. E.H. Prince, who developed the area in the 1890s, improved the pond (calling it
Home to schools for over 100 years, the first schoolhouse on this site was a two-room brick building erected in 1867. A ten-year course of instruction was adopted in 1876,
The Tivoli was the second theater in America designed and built for talking movies (the first was Brooklyn Paramount in November of the same year). When it opened on Christmas
On April 3, 1947, the Twin-City Zephyr Passenger Train, en route from Minneapolis to Chicago, traveling at 70 mph, collided with a 14 ton tractor near the Main Street Train
1947 Twin-City Zephyr Crash Site near the Main Street Train Station Read More »
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