Places

In 1928, the Forest Avenue entrance welcomed 311 students to Downers Grove Community High School, a three-story building with 20 classrooms and an auditorium/gymnasium. In subsequent years, several additions expanded […]

The brick streets were first laid in Downers Grove in the early 1900’s to replace dusty, dirt roads of the time. Main Street was the first street bricked in 1906;

The Avery Coonley School is the incarnation of Queene Ferry Coonley’s educational philosophy. An advocate of the Progressive Movement in education, Mrs. Coonley hired the nationally known architect, Waldron Faulkner,

On August 5, 1851, a group of 17 Baptists met in a school house on the corner of Maple Avenue and Dunham Road to organize the Baptist congregation. Services were

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.

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

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,

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