Glendale Heights, Illinois Glendale Heights Glendale Heights is a village in Du - Page County, Illinois, United States.
Glendale Heights was a small farming region served by the Glen Ellyn postal service up until the 1950s, with a populace of just 104 in 1959. Midland Enterprises ran by Charles and Harold Reskin started building homes in Glendale Heights in 1958.
The town was originally titled Glendale as it was between Glen Ellyn and Bloomingdale, but after a conflict arose with the small town of Glendale in Southern Illinois, the town/city decided in March 1960 to add the term Heights, in reference to its different topographies, a difference of about 100 feet because of its locale straddling the Valparaiso Morraine, thus becoming Glendale Heights. Glendale Heights is positioned at 41 55 13 N 88 4 44 W (41.920228, -88.078918). According to the 2010 census, Glendale Heights has a total region of 5.51 square miles (14.27 km2), of which 5.37 square miles (13.91 km2) (or 97.46%) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) (or 2.54%) is water. Glendale Heights has large Filipino and Asian Indian communities. Since then, the Hispanic improve inside Glendale heights has quickly grown.
In 2011, 22.1% of Glendale Heights's inhabitants were Asian, making it the Chicago suburb with the fourth highest percentage of Asians. Glendale Heights has three school districts, 15, 16 and 41.
All of these districts are K-8 and feed into Glenbard Township precinct 87.
Although there are three school districts, there is only one library district, the Glenside Public Library District.
District 16 has two schools, Glen Hill and Pheasant Ridge that are K-3.
District 16's name sake school, Queen Bee, is no longer used as an elementary school.
District 16 students are split between Glenbard North and Glenbard West for high school.
District 15 has four elementary schools, G.
Stanley Hall School, Winnebago School, Blackhawk School, and Charles G.
The middle school, Marquardt, is the district's school.
District 15 serves the easterly part of Glendale Heights, parts of Addison, southern section of Bloomingdale, unincorporated Lombard, and the northern part of Glen Ellyn Countryside.
Winnebago school has a Bloomingdale address, but sits very close to the Glendale Heights border.
District 15 feeds primarily into Glenbard East High School.
Glen Ellyn School District 41 District 41 has four elementary schools, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Churchill and Forest Glen.
Students that live in Glendale Heights inside the boundaries of District 41 attend Abraham Lincoln.
District 41 serves parts of Carol Stream, Glendale Heights, Glen Ellyn, Lombard and Wheaton.
Students that live in Glendale Heights inside the boundaries of District 41 feed into Glenbard West High School.
Billy Corgan, guitarist and singer of the Smashing Pumpkins, interval up in Glendale Heights.
Jeremy Hammond, political activist, hacktivist, and anarchist, born and interval up in Glendale Heights.
Jim Hoffmann, writer of the first elected book about the Boy in the Box (Philadelphia), interval up in Glendale Heights.
Glenside Public Library (Public Library for Glendale Heights) Municipalities and communities of Du - Page County, Illinois, United States
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