Downers Grove Village, DuPage County, Illinois (IL)

Downers Grove Village

DuPage County, Illinois

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Downers Grove Village Hall is located at 801 Burlington Avenue, Downers Grove, IL 60515.
Phone: 630‑434‑5500.

Neighborhoods

  • Acadia on the Green
  • Arbor Park
  • Belmont Woods
  • Bending Oaks
  • Brookeridge
  • Bruce Lake
  • Burlington Highlands
  • Cameo
  • Cameo West
  • Chasewood
  • Chesapeake
  • Deer Creek
  • Denburn Woods
  • Downers Grove Estates
  • Downers Grove Gardens
  • Dunham Place
  • El Sierra
  • Fairmount Village
  • Fairview Acres
  • Fairview Commons
  • Fairway Grove
  • Farmingdale
  • Farmingdale Village
  • Foxfire Court
  • Green Knolls
  • Grove Terrace Condos
  • Hillcrest
  • Innisbrook
  • Inverness Woods
  • Kensington Courts
  • Kensington Place
  • Knottingham
  • Lake in The Woods
  • Landsfield
  • Longmeadow
  • Lyman Oaks
  • Lyman Park
  • Maple Grove
  • Maplewood Condos
  • Mcinerney Woods
  • McIntosh
  • Mistwood
  • Morningside Square
  • Oak Creek
  • Orchard Brook
  • Orchard Hill
  • Orchard Terrace
  • Park Grove
  • Prentiss Brook Terrace
  • Prentiss Creek
  • Prince Pond
  • Queens Court
  • Randall Park
  • Shady Lane Estates
  • Spring Park Estates
  • Springside
  • Station Crossing
  • Suburban Estates
  • Terraces
  • The New 922
  • Valley View Estates
  • Victoria Ridge
  • Village Square
  • Villas of Maple Woods
  • Warren Grove
  • Westbrook
  • Westbrook South
  • Westbrook West
  • Woodcrest

Downers Grove as described in 1874 [1]

The old and familiar town known as Downer's Grove contains about 450 inhabitants, and is a place of worthy remark. It was first settled in the year 1834 by J. Blodgett, a Mr. Curtis, Judge Blanchard, and two or three others, and derived its name from one of its residents named Downer, and the large grove adjoining the village. It is situated in DuPage County, on the line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, 19 miles from the Chicago courthouse. The soil in and about the place is rich and peculiarly adapted to fruit and vegetable culture; and being high, and underlaid with gravel, affords excellent surface drainage. About 350 acres of the village land is owned by a Chicago company composed of H. G. Powers, L. L. Greenleaf, A. C. Ducat and others, who propose to convert it into an attractive residence park. About 25 of the residents are Chicago businessmen who find it advantageous to reside there, and who consider that the pleasures there secured are sufficient to liquidate the expenses incurred through railroad fares, etc. There are at present some 90 dwelling-houses (some of which are very good), three general stores, meat market, coal and lumber yard, drug store, two-story brick schoolhouse, four organized churches and a fine hotel. In addition to these, there are perhaps a dozen other dwellings in process of erection; and a steam mill now contemplated by one of the enterprising citizens.

  1. Everett Chamberlin, Chicago and Its Suburbs, T. A. Hungerford & Co., Chicago, 1874.

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