GLEN ELLYN

residential village, western suburb of Chicago, Du Page county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Its phases of development were marked by seven name changes: Babcock's Grove (1833) for the first settlers, Ralph and Morgan Babcock; DuPage Center (1834); Stacy's Corners (1835); Newton's Station (1849); Danby (1851); Prospect Park (1882); and Glen Ellyn (1889), Ellyn being for the wife of Thomas E. Hill, the village president. The College of DuPage was founded there in 1966; the village also has a campus of Lewis University College of Law. The bones of a mastodon, discovered by construction workers while enlarging a nearby lake (1963), are on exhibit in Breyer Laboratory, at nearby Wheaton College. Inc. 1892. Pop. (1990) 24,944.