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.
GLEN ELLYN
Meaning of GLEN ELLYN in English
Britannica English vocabulary. Английский словарь Британика. 2012