Editing Glendale Heights, Illinois (section)

==History==
Glendale Heights was a small farming area served by the Glen Ellyn post office up until the 1950s, with a population of just 104 in 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dupagehistory.org/dupage_roots/Glendale%20Heights_10.htm |title=History of DuPage County |access-date=September 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221205749/http://www.dupagehistory.org/dupage_roots/Glendale%20Heights_10.htm |archive-date=December 21, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Midland Enterprises, run by Charles and Harold Reskin, started building houses in Glendale Heights in 1958.  The Reskins bought two farms on Glen Ellyn Road north of North Avenue.  Houses were first built on Glen Ellyn Road and Larry Lane near Fullerton Avenue. On June 16, 1959, a petition was filed and on July 13, the village became incorporated. The first election was held later that summer on August 2.

The town was originally named ''Glendale'' as it was between [[Glen Ellyn, Illinois|Glen Ellyn]] and [[Bloomingdale, Illinois|Bloomingdale]], but after a conflict arose with the small town of [[Glendale, Illinois|Glendale]] in Southern Illinois, the city decided in March 1960 to add the term Heights, in reference to its different topographies, a difference of about {{Convert|100|ft|m}} because of its location straddling the Valparaiso Morraine, thus becoming Glendale Heights.<ref>{{cite news|title=Several Towns Named After Founders and Heroes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/872352/kanedupage_county_il_toponym_origins/|newspaper=The Daily Herald|date=December 28, 1999|page=220|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 17, 2014 }} {{Open access}}</ref>