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Location in Du - Page County and the state of Illinois.
Glen Ellyn is an well-to-do, suburban village in Du - Page County, Illinois, United States.
As of the 2010 Census, the village populace was 27,450. The first landowner in Glen Ellyn was Deacon Winslow Churchill.
He and his family moved to Glen Ellyn from New York in 1834.
His inn, Stacy's Tavern, assembled in 1846 and his second home, was a halfway stop between Chicago and the Fox River Valley and a probable stop for Galena, Illinois stagecoaches on their way to Rockford, Illinois.
In 1849, assembly of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad through Glen Ellyn was finished.
Hill and Philo Stacy spearheaded a universal to problematic a new lake, called Lake Glen Ellyn, by having a dam assembled in a close-by stream.
In 1891, Glen Ellyn, advertised as Chicago's newest suburb and community resort, became the village's official name; it was incorporated on May 10, 1892. The large Lake Glen Ellyn Hotel opened in 1892, the same year much of the company precinct was finished by fire.
By World War I, Glen Oak Country Club served the Oak Park and Glen Ellyn communities, and in 1922 the first Glenbard high school was built.
The town went through a several names, including Babcock's Grove (named for three brothers that settled there), Du - Page Center, Stacy's Corners (after the Stacy family), Newton's Station, Danby (after Danby, Vermont, a small-town landowner's birthplace), Prospect Park, and finally Glen Ellyn. The name Glen Ellyn is based on the Welsh version of the name of the then village president Thomas E.
The Village of Glen Ellyn is positioned at 41 52 16 N 88 3 47 W (41.870979, -88.063011). It is a suburb of Chicago, and it lies about 25 miles (40 km) to the west of the city.
According to the 2010 census, Glen Ellyn has a total region of 6.773 square miles (17.54 km2), of which 6.61 square miles (17.12 km2) (or 97.59%) is territory and 0.163 square miles (0.42 km2) (or 2.41%) is water. In the village, the populace was spread out with 28.4% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
Enumeration Bureau, the median income for a homehold in the village was $90,640, and the median income for a family was $123,455. Males had a median income of $68,630 versus $36,287 for females.
Glen Ellyn is served by the Metra Union Pacific/West Line.
The Glen Ellyn station is positioned at 551 Crescent Blvd, near the heart of the downtown company district.
Glen Ellyn is served by Pace bus routes 714, 715, and 301 passing through the village on Roosevelt Road.
The Illinois Prairie Path bicycle trail bisects the village and the Great Western Trail (Illinois) passes through the northern edge.
Main article: List of citizens from Glen Ellyn, Illinois Glen Ellyn is the setting for the novel The Girl Who Owned a City by O.
The protagonist lives in the Lake Ellyn region of the village.
After a virus kills all grownups on the planet, she, with a several other children, moved into Glenbard West High School.
Glen Ellyn and Glenbard West High School were used as the setting in the movie Lucas, Winona Ryder's first movie, also starring Charlie Sheen.
Glen Ellyn was also used in June 2007 for the movie Witless Protection, featuring Larry the Cable Guy.
Glen Ellyn is the home of the fictional character Joe Patroni, the TWA engineer in the novel Airport and played by George Kennedy in the movie Airport.
The chief campus of College of Du - Page is also in Glen Ellyn.
Glen Ellyn's major schools are part of Glen Ellyn School District 41 and Community Consolidated School District 89 .
Its high schools are a part of Glenbard Township High School District 87.
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