Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Community
The DuPage County Crisis Recovery Center completed more than 2,200 crisis assessments in its first year, including 386 for youth, while keeping 97% of visitors out of the hospital. The 24/7 Wheaton facility is open to Hinsdale residents regardless of insurance.
Community
The DuPage County Crisis Recovery Center completed more than 2,200 crisis assessments in its first year, including 386 for youth, while keeping 97% of visitors out of the hospital. The 24/7 Wheaton facility is open to Hinsdale residents regardless of insurance.
Community
Village President Greg Hart announced a public remembrance ceremony at 8:45 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, on the front steps of Village Hall to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, with 25 American flags surrounding the building.
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The Community House in Hinsdale hosts a 12-game Mah Jongg fundraising tournament on Saturday, Sept. 12, with registration starting at $50 and lunch included.
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Hinsdale Central High School opens its 2026-27 drama season Sept. 24 with "Radium Girls," a play about Illinois factory workers poisoned by radium in the 1920s, while Theatre of Western Springs and Drury Lane also launch ambitious fall lineups.
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The DuPage County Finance Committee approved $25,000 on Aug. 25 to buy and distribute free gun safes to county residents at a Safety Saturday event on Oct. 3, framing it as a gun-violence prevention pilot that could expand.
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A GoFundMe launched by neighbor and employer Teddy Wozny for the three children of Angie Khalmendik, the Hinsdale mother who drowned saving her son from the Des Plaines River, raised more than $41,600 in under 48 hours.
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The Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce's Uniquely Thursdays summer concert series wrapped its 10-week Thursday run on Aug. 13 and will close with a bonus Wednesday makeup show featuring 7th Heaven on Aug. 19 at Burlington Park.
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The Hinsdale Public Library's monthly Memory Cafe continues to connect dementia patients and their caregivers through music, games and arts, even as the building undergoes a renovation expected to finish this fall.
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The Hinsdale Public Library's Maker Studio is offering six hands-on August workshops for cardholders, from laser-etched bookmarks to sewing and clay sculpting, even as the building's $4 million renovation passes its halfway point.
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The Hinsdale Public Library's Junior Advisory Board closed applications for the 2026-27 school year on Aug. 1, with decisions due by Sept. 1; the incoming cohort will be the first to help program a new lower-level teen space as part of the library's $4 million renovation.
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The Active Senior Expo brings free health screenings, Medicare guidance, fraud-prevention tips, and live music to the Darien Sportsplex on Wednesday, Aug. 5, just a 10-minute drive from Hinsdale.
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Camerata Chicago has announced its 2026-2027 season with four concert programs at Union Church in Hinsdale, featuring a Mendelssohn opener in October, Handel's "Messiah" in November, baroque concerti in March, and the Fauré Requiem in April.
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Hinsdale-area residents can mark the nation's 250th birthday this summer and fall with a free outdoor sculpture exhibition in Glen Ellyn, a community-made flag on display in Warrenville, and a Tuesday, July 28 lecture at the Hinsdale Public Library on Illinois's role in the American Revolution.
