

Developed and named the city of Glendale Heights, Illinois.
During 1958 Midland Enterprises, operated by Charles and Harold Reskin, bought two farms on Glen Ellyn Road north of North Avenue. The first houses were built that year on Glen Ellyn Road and Larry Lane near Fullerton. The population stood at 104 on June 16, 1959, when a petition to incorporate was filed. On July 13 the court declared the village organized, and the first election was held on August 2. The first village board met on September 1, 1959, at the home of the newly elected village president, Anthony Larry.
Though incorporated as Glendale, the name was changed to Glendale Heights in March 1960, because there was another Glendale, in southern Illinois.
The Glenside Public Library, which moved into a new $2,000,000 facility at 25 East Fullerton Avenue on July 10, 1982, began in 1967 as a volunteer effort in a house at 1631 Glen Ellyn Road, leased to the village by Harold Reskin for $1.00 a year.
Founder and owner of the Glendale Polo Club, Illinois.
The historic Blackstone Theatre is renamed the Merle Reskin Theatre, following receipt of a gift in excess of $2 million from Harold Reskin to rename the theater in honor of his wife, Merle. The gift is the largest in the history of the Theatre School.
1929 |
November 27, 1929
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Illinois, United States
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1996 |
March 2, 1996
Age 66
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Palm Desert, Riverside, California, United States
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