Places

Whittier School was selected as one of the two Historic Sites of the Year for 2009. The other was it’s sister school Longfellow School, which was demolished in 2022. Whittier […]

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