Downers Grove North High School

Downers Grove North High School, or DGN, and locally referred to as "North," is a public four-year high school located near the corner of Main Street and Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community High School District 99, which also includes Downers Grove South High School. The North campus draws students from Downers Grove (north of 55th St.), and small sections of Woodridge, Oak Brook, and Westmont.

History

The original building (then called Downers Grove High School) was finished in 1928, with additions made in 1935, 1952, 1976, 1999-2000, and 2011-2013. In 1964, the school's student body was split in half, one portion attending North, the other attending the newly built Downers Grove South.

The auditorium is named after Clarence Johnson, who served as Principal of the school for 35-years from 1932 to 1967, and DGN's outdoor stadium is named after their former longtime football coach Dick Carstens.

Downers Grove, Illinois

Downers Grove is a village in southern DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1832 by Pierce Downer, whose surname serves as the eponym for the village. Approximately 20 miles from the Loop, Downers Grove is a western suburb of Chicago. The most recent census estimate tallied 49,715 residents in 2014.

History

Downers Grove was founded in 1832 by Pierce Downer, a religious evangelist from Wampsville, New York. Its other early settlers included the Blodgett, Curtiss, and Carpenter families. The original settlers were mostly migrants from the Northeastern United States and Northern Europe. The first schoolhouse was built in 1844.

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended from Aurora to Chicago through Downers Grove in 1862, boosting its population. The town was incorporated in March 1873. Its somewhat unusual spelling ("Apostrophe-free since 1873") remains a minor historical mystery.

In April 1947 the wreck of a Burlington Railroad Twin Cities Zephyr passenger train killed three people, including the engineer. The streamliner struck a large tractor which had fallen from a freight train and two passenger cars crashed through a wall of the Main Street Station.

Downers Grove Main Street station

Downers Grove Main Street (also known as Downers Grove or Main Street) is one of three railroad stations on Metra's BNSF Railway Line in Downers Grove, Illinois. The station is at Main Street, 21.1 miles (34.0 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line. The local police department is nearby. Parking lots are managed by the Village of Downers Grove.

It is the third busiest Metra station outside of Downtown Chicago, only behind Naperville (second busiest) and Route 59 (busiest).

The station has connections to both Pace Buses, and the Village's own Grove Commuter Shuttle.

This station was the site of the 1947 Zephyr train wreck that killed 3 and injured more than 30.

The station is currently undergoing a $1.1 million platform replacement project, due for completion in July 2015.

Bus connections

Pace Bus

Grove Commuter Shuttle

References

External links

Media related to Downers Grove – Main Street (Metra) at Wikimedia Commons