Prince Pond
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 […]
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Places
This category is for places that are significant to Downers Grove history.
Lincoln Center
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,
Tivoli Theatre
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
1947 Twin-City Zephyr Crash Site near the Main Street Train Station
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
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