Itasca, Illinois Itasca, Illinois Village of Itasca Itasca /a t sk / is a village in Du - Page County, Illinois, United States.
In 2009, Business - Week rated Itasca as the 'Best Affordable Suburb' in the state of Illinois. The document gave Smith title to the territory that is now bounded by the barns tracks on the south, Maple Street on the west, Cherry Street on the east, and Division Street on the north.
The name Itasca comes from Lake Itasca. In the 1860s the first school was built.
The Chicago and Pacific Railroad was instead of from Chicago to Elgin, with stations at Bensenville, Wood Dale (called Lester) and Itasca.
The people of Itasca decided in 1890 to incorporate into a village.
Irving Park Road was first called the Chicago and Elgin Road.
The Village of Itasca created a Historical Commission in 1985 to retain the beautiful beauty, character, and historical integrity of the Village.
The Village of Itasca is committed to the preservation of its pre-1900 and early 1900 homes, buildings, structures, and places.
In 1987, the Village adopted the Historic Preservation Ordinance which provides a mechanism to identify and preserve the special distinct ive historic, beautiful, architectural and/or landscaping characteristics of the Village's cultural, social, economic, political and architectural history.
The Itasca Historical District includes the following area: Bounded on the north by North Street, on the south by Bloomingdale Road, east to Irving Park, Irving Park east to Rush Street; on the east by Cherry Street extended to Schiller Street then west to Rush Street, then south to Irving Park Road and on the west by Catalpa Avenue extended to Bloomingdale Road.
The Spire, which is Itasca's most familiar landmark, graces the top of what was formerly the Lutheran Church of St.
Until 1916, there was no bank in Itasca.
The Itasca State Bank had as its president H.
The Franzen banks in Itasca, Roselle, and Fox Lake were sound throughout the difficult times of the 1920s, and emerged successfully from the Depression.
Annexations had resulted in fifty miles of Village streets, more parks, and two industrialized areas to serve.
A park district, a Village library, and a fire precinct were formed.
High school students from Itasca attended Bensenville's Fenton High School and Glenbard High School, a combined Glen Ellyn-Lombard school.
Lake Park High School, with students from Itasca, Roselle, Medinah, Keeneyville and Bloomingdale, opened in September 1956.
Modern trade was foreign to Itasca until 1961 when Central Manufacturing District (CMD) bought about 400 acres on the edge of the village.
In 1970, the Itasca Industrial Park was established to the east of the Village, and thriving many more industries.
A 420-room Stouffer Hotel and a ten-story office building, instead of in 1981, constituted the first phase of the project, situated on 278 acres on the northwest edge of Itasca.
In 1966, the Village purchased 60 acres of territory south of Irving Park Road.
Outstanding residentiary neighborhoods, first-rate schools, and beautiful parks distinguish Itasca as a character community.
Itasca is positioned at 41 58 29 N 88 1 7 W (41.974678, -88.018513). According to the 2010 census, Itasca has a total region of 5.073 square miles (13.14 km2), of which 4.95 square miles (12.82 km2) (or 97.58%) is territory and 0.123 square miles (0.32 km2) (or 2.42%) is water. In the village, the populace was spread out with 23.0% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 33.0% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Itasca Baptist Church athwart the street from Usher Park with the gazebo is an Itasca landmark.
Itasca's residentiary neighborhoods, for the most part, straddle the barns tracks running through the village.
(Itasca has two unincorporated neighborhoods west of Rohlwing Road: Nordic Hills near the intersection of Rohlwing and Bloomingdale Roads, and the Ranchettes near the intersection of Rohlwing and Irving Park Roads).
The four chief are only four barns crossings in Itasca, from west to east: IL 53/Rohlwing Road, Catalpa Street, Walnut Street, and CR 10/Prospect Avenue and a several the rest in the Industrial Parks.
Walnut Street, between Bloomingdale Road and Division Street, is generally regarded as Itasca's "downtown".
The town's landmarks include Itasca Baptist Church, and Usher Park, which is on Walnut Street.
Irving Park Road between Interstate 290 and First Street is also a commercial corridor, as well as the home of the town's Municipal Campus (library, exhibition, pool, fire station, and police station/village hall).
West of I-290, Irving Park Road remains commercial, but with more nationwide chain businesses (Holiday Inn, Subway, etc.) The Itasca postal service is also on this stretch.
Prior to 1995, Itasca's School District 10 had one Pre - K-5 elementary school on each side of town: Franzen School on the North Side and Washington School on the South Side.
Itasca is served by High School District 108, Lake Park High School in close-by Roselle).
Beginning with the 1995-1996 school year, the elementary schools were merged : Benson Primary School, formerly Washington School, would turn into Pre - K-2nd Grade; Franzen Intermediate School would turn into 3rd-5th Grades.
Peter the Apostle Catholic Church and School offered elementary education in Itasca from 1963 until its closure in 2010.
The Church and school were relocated to their current locale at Washington and Rush street in 1961.
Headquarters are positioned in Itasca.
Itasca has a station on Metra's Milwaukee District/West Line, which provides daily rail service between Elgin and Chicago (at Union Station).
The town is also positioned at the junction of Interstate 290, Veterans Memorial Tollway, and the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, making Itasca a prime locale for commerce and trade in the northwest suburbs.
State Highway 19 (Irving Park Road), which joins Chicago and Elgin, runs east west through the center of town.
State Highway 53 (Rohlwing Road) runs north south through the edge of the village.
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