Elmhurst (Illinois)

Cook County DuPage County

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Elmhurst is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County and Cook County, Illinois, United States. According to the 2008 census lived in the town of 46013 inhabitants.

History

Members of the Potawatomi tribe, who settled along the Salt Creek south of the point at which the city should develop, are the earliest known inhabitants of the area. , European immigrants settled on plots of the same Creeks At around 1836. In the future city center Gerry Bates founded in 1842 in Ohio a community on a parcel treeless country.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Marilyn Biery Perkins ( born 1959 ), a church musician and composer
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