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River Grove School District 85.5
River Grove School District 85.5 is a school district headquartered in River Grove, Illinois. It operates a single K-8 school, River Grove Public School. The district was established in the 1830s along a trading trail leading from Chicago to a crossing of the DesPlaines River. The large cast bell from the original framed school building remains in the school's entrance and dates the original building to 1867. Dr. John Bartelt acted as superintendent between 2004 through 2012. Glenn Grieshaber served as superintendent between 2012 and 2015 after serving as principal for seven years. Joseph Simpkins served as superintendent until 2017, when he became head of Richland School District 88A. Jan Rashid became the superintendent on July 1, 2017. References External links River Grove School District 85.5 School districts in Cook County, Illinois {{Illinois-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Grove, Illinois
River Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,612 at the 2020 census. Geography River Grove is located at (41.925830, -87.840135). According to the 2010 census, River Grove has a total area of , all land. History Just as nearby Elmwood Park and Oak Park are named after their historic elm and oak trees, River Grove gets its two-part name first from the community's shallow, muddy Des Plaines River, and second from the majestic groves of American ash trees lining shore of the river's "bottomland." Credit goes to the village's early German and Nordic settlers who, already holding a great reverence for the "mystic ash" through old world traditions, felt that they were home again among the familiar groves of ash trees, "just like the ones they left behind." Up until the modern day extinction event of the American ash tree species 2006–2018, River Grove was the home to Cook County's second-oldest green ash with an estimated age of 240 in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |