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Elmhurst is a city mostly in DuPage County and overlapping into Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois, and a western suburb of Chicago. As of the 2016 census, the city had a total population of 46,387.
At mid-decade, nearly 150 years had passed since Elmhurst’s founding in. A few small homesteads and a handful of settlers had been replaced by a residential community of nearly 45,000 persons. The city’s 9.8 square miles stretched from Roosevelt Road on the south to Grand Avenue on the north, and from County Line Road on the east to Villa Avenue on the west. Within its boundaries were nineteen elementary and secondary schools, serving some 9,500 children; two colleges, enrolling approximately 3,400 students; thirty churches, representing most major denominations; two libraries, one public and one academic (Buehler Library at Elmhurst College), with a combined total of about 300,000 volumes; two museums; a hospital; some 1,900 commercial, professional, and industrial business concerns; and twenty park sites, covering 328 acres of recreational land and facilities. Upon the sturdy foundation laid by its early settlers, succeeding generations of Elmhurst residents had built well for themselves and for the future.