Irish Dancing Magazine's office is located in downtown Elmhurst. This magazine offers a great deal of entertainment and information for any Irish dancing fanatic.
Founded in 1959, Christ United Methodist Church hosts some 200 families within its congregation. Christ United offers several youth bible study programs separated by age group. The church is right next to Jackson Middle School.
The Elmhurst Jaycees serves the community through fund-raising for worthy events, and in 1973 the group realized its goal of creating a small, neighborhood park for Elmhurst's littlest residents. The Jaycee Tot Lot is specially designed for children ages two to five. Renovations to the playground were completed in 2004 with a donation from the Jaycees, and the park now includes a sand table and a state-of-the-art soft surface to minimize injuries from falls.
Parishioners at Epiphany Evangelical Lutheran Church are led in worship by Pastor Dennis Beach and associate Pastor Ron Feltman. The church community prides itself on service to children through its youth, junior and senior high school ministries. The church is also home to the Elmhurst Children's Choir and Adult Christian Care, a day program for physically or cognitively impaired adults. Small groups meet regularly at Epiphany, including Families in Faith, the quilters, and clothing and toy resale committees, and mission groups have traveled to Africa and Mississippi.
Residents who grew up in the neighborhood around Poplar and May Streets in the 1970s have fond memories of Washington School. A monument to the school remains at what is now Washington Park. The Park District purchased the school and its surrounding three acres in 1979, and one year later the school building was taken down and replaced with the park. Visitors enjoy picnics in the park, along with a playground, ball diamond and basketball court
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Named after the Rev. Msgr. William J. Plunkett, a priest at Immaculate Conception Parish in Elmhurst, Plunkett Park is a prime spot for baseball games under the lights. Immaculate Conception High School used the land for its athletic field prior to selling the property to the Park District in 1971. The school still hosts home games here. At the south end of Plunkett Park is Courts Plus, a center for health, sports and fitness run by the Elmhurst Park District. Courts Plus includes a lap pool, fitness center, racquet sports, a climbing wall and lots of group exercise classes.
Crescent Park is an example of the Elmhurst Park District's mission of preserving open space. Although the park doesn't have a playground, it is a neighborhood spot to throw a ball around or have a picnic on the lawn.
Marjorie Davis Park is on the site of the former Roosevelt School, which opened in 1992 and was demolished in 1980. More than 16,000 children had been educated there. Marjorie Davis taught at the school for more than 30 years and the park was dedicated to her in 1981.
Adult Christian Care is a daycare program designed for adults with physical or cognitive impairments. The program provides a safe environment for adults who still reside in their homes. The program, which is housed at Epiphany Evangelical Lutheran Church, is a cooperative effort of local churches. Daily activities include games, crafts, exercise and musical and spiritual programs.
Berens Park truly has something for everyone. The original land was acquired by the park district over the course of three years in the mid-'60s, and the park was named after the founder of the Elmhurst Historical Commission, Helmut Berens. The Park District expanded the park in the mid-'70s, and in May 2002, it purchased MacCormac College and turned it into a community center at the north end of the park.
Berens features five lighted ball diamonds, three sand volleyball courts, 12 lighted tennis courts, five irrigated soccer fields, a walking/running path, parking for 600 cars, a 10,000-square-foot playground, batting cages, an 18-hole miniature golf course, 6,000-square-foot sprayground, a pavilion for parties and meetings, concessions, a sledding hill and more.
First Baptist is also known as ELM Church, which stands for Evangelism Everywhere, Life Together and Maturity in Christ. From its prominent location at the intersection of York and St. Charles, ELM Church works to intersect the past traditions of the church with the modern world. It works with other churches in Elmhurst in an inter-denominational work of fellowship.
This Georgian Colonial-style church stands out beautifully from the residential homes nearby on Prospect Avenue. It caters to the Christian Science denomination and offers Sunday services at 10:30am.
Founded in 1942, Yorkfield Presbyterian Church is a long-standing Elmhurst religious community. The church counts roughly 320 families in its congregation. Yorkfield hosts two youth ministry programs: one group for middle-school students and the other for high-school students. Both groups take several mission trips per year.
Visitation Parish, in the Diocese of Joliet, was founded in 1953. The nine-acre site includes the church, school, convent, rectory, chapel and gymnasium.
The parish is undergoing a major renovation to update buildings and add much-needed space to prepare for future generations. Renovations include replacing Madonna Hall with a new Parish Center, modernizing the school and creating safer pathways for children, creating handicap accessibility, increasing meeting space to support parish ministries and programs — all with as little disruption as possible in the day-to-day life at the parish.
Wilder Park can perhaps be considered the crown jewel of Elmhurst. It sits in the center of town and is home to museums, the Elmhurst Public Library, Veterans Memorial, picnic areas, tennis courts, a playground, landscaped walkways and greenhouses. In the 1860s, Wilder Park was home to Seth Wadhams, who purchased the land and built a home called White Birch. The home also was owned by the Wilder family before the Park District purchased the land in 1921. Wilder Mansion eventually became the site of Elmhurst Public Library, and today, after several renovations, provides space for weddings, meetings and parties.
The final resting place for Elmhurst's first village president, Henry Glos, and his wife Lucy, forms the centerpiece of Glos Memorial Park. Founded in 1979, the memorial park's mausoleum and the surrounding land is just on the other side of the underpass from the Glos Mansion, which is the home of Elmhurst Historical Museum. Visitors can walk through or picnic among the manicured gardens which surround the mausoleum.
Crestview Park was developed as a neighborhood park in 1967, then the park district purchased the land from the school district in 1971. On-site are picnic tables, a playground, baseball diamond, tennis court, sled hill, roller hockey, basketball courts and a soccer field sprawled across more than 11 acres of land.