Get in
Roosevelt Road is a major artery that runs through town. O'Hare International Airport is nearby. Metra commuter trains provide a connection from Chicago en route to Elburn.
Get around
The PACE bus system provides transportation to neighboring towns such as Lombard and Wheaton.
See
Buy
The Central Business District of Glen Ellyn has many specialty stores to suit all types of people. In addition, there is a strong retail and commercial presence on Roosevelt Rd.
Eat
It is Glen Ellyn's restaurant scene that is the true star of downtown. The CBD features numerous award winning restaurants including: Cab's, Bistro Monet, Shannon's Irish Pub, Figo, Marinella's, Barone's, Pacific Blue, Mykha's, Thipi Thai, and Santa Fe.
Recently a former downtown Glen Ellyn mainstay returned to the CBD after a 2 year hiatus. Lee Ebersole's Heaven-Lee Chicago Hot Dogs hot dog cart was awarded a new permit to sell hot dogs from his cart after a two year debacle with the DuPage County Health Department.
Sleep
Lodging in Glen Ellyn is extremely limited and poor at best featuring a Super 8 Motel and an America's Best Inn. Although there will be one notable exception. In mid- to late 2007 a Crowne Plaza is to open up near Glen Ellyn's border to Lombard.
Glen Ellyn is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the village population was 26,999.
History
Deacon Winslow Churchill and family arrived from New York in 1834 to become the first landowners in the area that is now Glen Ellyn. Moses Stacy, a soldier in the War of 1812, arrived here in 1835. His inn, Stacy's Tavern, built in 1846 and his second home, was a half-way stop between Chicago and the Fox River Valley and a probable stop for Galena stagecoaches on their way to Rockford, Illinois. Stacy's Tavern, now a historical monument, is still standing at what is now the intersection of Geneva Road and Main Street-Glen Ellyn.
The nucleus of settlement shifted to the south when the railroad came through the village in 1849. Although no stop was planned for the area, Lewey Q. Newton deeded a right-of-way to the railroad and offered to build a depot and water tank at his own expense if it would permit a stop there. This became known as Newton Station. Within three years, the new postmaster named the town Danby after his birthplace in Vermont.
Religious services were conducted by circuit riders until the first Congregational church was established in 1862. Various Protestant churches rose in the village and it would be more than 60 years before Roman...
