Bloomingdale Illinois Community Information Real Estate

Bob Dohn Schaumburg Real Estate

Welcome to the Village of Bloomingdale

Statistics

Date Founded: March 11, 1833
When Incorporated: June 1923
Form of government: Village President/Board of Trustees
Population: 21,675 (2000 Census)

Median resident age: 38.2 years
Area: 7.4 square miles
Average January temperature:24.3 degrees F.
Average July temperature:74.7 degrees F.

Village of Bloomingdale

201 S. Bloomingdale Road., Bloomingdale, IL 60108

Phone 630-893-7000

http://www.vil.bloomingdale.il.us/

History

When Silas, Harvey and Lyman Meacham claimed this area in 1833, they came seeking a place to settle and raise their families. The brothers, and those who followed them, formed an agricultural community that eventually thrived as a result of its strategic location on a major thoroughfare, the Chicago-Galena Highway, now Lake Street.

By 1837 a Bloomingdale Post Office was established, and the village became the third town to be platted in DuPage County. The village's first permanent building, a Baptist church, was built in 1849. Now the Bloomingdale Park District Museum is housed there. Retailing was already important in Bloomingdale by the time the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad came through the northern part of Bloomingdale Township in 1873. There were two boot and shoemakers, two carpenters, a wagon maker/blacksmith, and a cheese factory. The men's clothier and tailor shop started by Francis X. Neltnor still stands near Lake Street and Bloomingdale Road, in the area of restored shops kept as Old Town Bloomingdale.

The village of Roselle was platted along the railroad right-of-way in 1875; the first separation of the neighboring towns. In the early 1900s Bloomingdale and Roselle shared library books, and a fire engine, alternating their locations every six months. On June 16, 1923, the new village of Bloomingdale, split off from Roselle, was incorporated.

Bloomingdale remained a small farming community until the post World War II growth of the 1950s, when the population almost quadrupled from 339 residents in 1950 to 1262 in 1960.

With a population of 21,675 in 2000, Bloomingdale boasts a country-like environment carefully integrated with commercial, office and retail development. As an end result the community provides a wide variety of living, working, shopping and recreational opportunities built around a carefully preserved heritage.

Public Transportation

Metra Rail

Union Pacific Metro Rail to Chicago

Glen Ellyn Station 630-469-0353

Milwaukee Road Metra Rail to Chicago

Roselle Depot 630 529-2882

http://www.metrarail.com/

Pace Bus

364-PACE

http://www.pacebus.com/

Dial-A-Ride Service (Township Program)

630 893-7555

http://www.bloomingdaletownship.com/

Schools

Bloomingdale School District 13

164 S. Euclid, Bloomingdale, IL 60108

630 893-9590

http://www.sd13.org/

Erickson School

630 529-2223

DuJardin School

630 894-9200

Westfield Jr High

630 529-6211

Consolidated School District 93

4N570 Old Gary Ave. Bartlett, IL 60103

630 462-8900

http://www.ccsd93.com/

Elsie C. Johnson School

630 462-8930

Jay Stream School

630 462-8940

Stratford Jr High

630 980-9898

Kenneyville School District 20

5540 Arlington Dr East Hanover Pk, IL 60103

630 894-2250

http://www.esd20.dupage.k12.il.us/

Greenbrook Elementary School

630 289-8130

Waterbury Elementary School

630 893-8180

Springfield Middle School

630 893-8900

Marquardt School District 15

1890 Glen Ellyn Rd, Glendale Hts, IL 60139

630 858-1166

http://www.d15.dupage.k12.il.us/

Blackhawk Elementary School

630 893-5750

G. Stanlley Hall School

630 469-7720

Charles G. Reskin School

630 469-0612

Winnebago Elementary School

630 893-1880

Marquardt Middle School

630 858-3850

College of DuPage

22nd & Lambert Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

630 858-2800

http://www.cod.edu/

Lake Park High School Dist. 108

450 Spring Ct., Roselle, IL 60172

630 529-4500

http://www.lphs.dupage.k12.il.us/

St. Isidore School (Catholic)

25W260 Army Trail Rd, Bloomingdale, IL 60108

630 529-9323

http://www.stisidoreparish.org/school.htm

St. Matthew School (Catholic)

1555 Glen Ellyn Rd, Glendale Hts, IL 60139

630 858-3112

http://www.stmatthewlancers.org/

St. Walter School (Catholic)

201 W. Maple Ave. Roselle, IL 60172

630 529-1721

http://www.stwalterchurch.com/body_index.html

Glenbard High School District 87

800 Roosevelt Rd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

630 469-9100

http://www.glenbard.dupage.k12.il.us/

Glenbard North High School

630 653-7000

Glenbard East High School

630 627-9250

Driscoll High School (Catholic)

555 N. Lombard Rd. Addison, IL 60101

630 543-6310

http://www.driscollcatholic.com/

St. Francis High School (Catholic)

2130 W. Roosevelt Rd Wheaton, IL 60187

630 668-5800

http://www.sfhsnet.org/

Shopping

Stratford Square, at Army Trail Road and Gary Ave., is the largest of Bloomingdale's shopping centers. Five major department stores and 173 specialty shops and restaurant are enclosed in an indoor landscaped mall. Hungry shoppers can snack in the Festival Court, selecting from a multitude of foods appealing to any appetite. Eight movie screens in the 3000 seat cinema complex show currently popular films.

Old Town Bloomingdale, at Lake Street and Bloomingdale Road, is a collection of small retail and service oriented businesses located in restored buildings at the original site of the village's first settlement.

Springbrook Shopping Center, Bloomingdale Court/Stratford Plaza, The Courtyard, Old Town Square, Cloverleaf Towers, and Circle Center offer chain and independently-owned stores and service outlets, as do many of the smaller shopping and professional office areas found along Bloomingdale's main streets. This huge variety of stores and convenient parking make Bloomingdale attractive to shoppers and retailers.

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