Glen Ellyn is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. A suburb located 24 miles due west of downtown Chicago, the village has a population of 28,846 as of the 2020 Census. Glen Ellyn, like the neighboring town to the east, Lombard, had its genesis in an 1833 claim by two brothers from the Finger Lakes region of New York, Morgan a…Glen Ellyn is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. A suburb located 24 miles due west of downtown Chicago, the village has a population of 28,846 as of the 2020 Census. Glen Ellyn, like the neighboring town to the east, Lombard, had its genesis in an 1833 claim by two brothers from the Finger Lakes region of New York, Morgan and Ralph Babcock. The two claimed property in a large stand of timber near present-day St. Charles Road and the East Branch of the DuPage River. The brothers also arranged for a claim for their New York neighbor Deacon Winslow Churchill, who arrived in 1834 along with some of his adult children and their families. The nascent settlement became known as Babcock's Grove, and it included property currently part of both Glen Ellyn and Lombard.
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