The Glen Ellyn Youth and Family Counseling Service (GEYFCS) is pleased to announce it's recognition as an organization making a difference in the larger Glen Ellyn community and grant award received May 8th from the Union Pacific Foundation . GEYFCS...

Suburban Life file photo Visitors stroll the grounds of the Taste of Glen Ellyn.

Attorney Robert Duncan, founder of Duncan Law Group, was recently named to the Village of Glen Ellyn Economic Development Committee. The committee is responsible for development opportunities in Glen Ellyn, a self-proclaimed “village of volunteers” in the suburbs of Chicago. (PRWeb May 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10729956.htm

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GLEN ELLYN – After the installation of sidewalk along Crescent Boulevard in Glen Ellyn was delayed last fall, the project is set to be completed in June, according to emails from village officials to residents in the area.

Nick Houser (from left), 13, of Glen Ellyn, tries on a bass guitar before a free lesson at the School of Rock in Glen Ellyn's grand opening party on Saturday, May 4, 2013. Nick's dad, David, and brother, Eric, 12, talk with Mark Biondi, vice president of marketing.

He has yet to be sworn in but village president-to-be Alex Demos is already knee-deep in Glen Ellyn business. The 51-year-old entrepreneur has been making his rounds through the village, listening to residents still suffering from last month's floods....

GLEN ELLYN – Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-8) will host a roundtable discussion on college affordability Thursday at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.

Jewelry stores and other retailers in Glen Ellyn that sell secondhand goods are now being required to photograph and catalog items they purchase in an effort to help local law enforcement recover stolen goods. Police say the ordinance approved by the village board this week is a way to help victims of burglaries and thefts recover their property. But some business owners affected by the new ...

GLEN ELLYN – After much discussion, the Glen Ellyn Village Board unanimously approved a 22-lot subdivision to be built at 760 Sheehan Ave. near Route 53 in Glen Ellyn during its meeting Monday.

GLEN ELLYN – Members of the Glen Ellyn Village Board unanimously voted Monday to require stores that purchase gold, jewelry and other similar items from customers to hold onto the items for four days and enter them into a database, giving local police officials a better chance at recovering items that have been stolen before the stores sell them.

It was while folding tamales at a cooking class in 2007 that Jill Foucr� figured out exactly how to spice up her work life. Then regional vice president of UnitedHealth Networks, the Glen Ellyn, Ill., ...

The largest new housing development in Glen Ellyn in a decade is scheduled for construction, now that necessary zoning approvals have been granted that allow the project to commence. The village board Monday voted 6-0 to approve variance requests of K. Hovnanian Homes, which plans to build 22 single family homes at the northwest corner of Sheehan Avenue and Route 53.

GLEN ELLYN – When Craig and Joy Yerly purchased Next Stop Coffee Shop at the Glen Ellyn train station last July, they had a few goals in mind: to increase their business, make everything as convenient as possible for their customers and involve the local business community as much as they could.

Glen Ellyn public works employees will now be able to work on a village-owned sanitary lift station located on College of DuPage property, under an agreement approved this week. The lift station was constructed in the early 1970s on COD property at 580 S. Park Blvd., and while an easement was drafted at the time, it was never executed, village officials said. COD and Glen Ellyn officials have ...

In his final days as village president of Glen Ellyn, Mark Pfefferman says he won't be signing onto the village's $48.1 million budget because he believes the village should have "higher standards." In a largely symbolic gesture, he told village officials, "The continuous progress we have made in improving budgets for the last three years has reversed direction."

GLEN ELLYN – After sustaining significant damage from 5 feet of floodwater in its basement as well as sewage water on the first floor, the Glen Ellyn Public Library is set to reopen Saturday for its Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Open House that had been previously planned.

LOMBARD — Last week, the Lombard and Glen Ellyn boards of trustees approved an amended intergovernmental agreement on the Glenbard Wastewater Authority. This agreement also was approved by the Glenbard Wastewater Authority board.

Glen Ellyn's downtown is a few steps away from becoming part of the National Register of Historic Places. Granacki Historic Consultants, the firm that prepared the village's nomination packet, will submit the village's nomination to the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency by the end of the month, and the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council will consider approval at its June 26 meeting at ...

Paul Sivak was recently given the 2012 Citizen of the Year Award by the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce. (Submitted photo)