Chamber members hosted more than 40 new teachers from Elmhurst Community Unit School District 205 and Immanuel Lutheran School at the 28th Annual New Teachers Luncheon at Diplomat West Banquet Halls on August 6.
With only five months left in our Chamber’s 100th Anniversary year, now is the perfect time for you or your member business/organization to contribute to our $250,000 Centennial Celebration Capital Campaign—especially with Treasurer Ralph Pechanio offering to match up to $25,000 in gifts to his endowment fund at Elmhurst College.
Elmhurst Garden Club, an Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry members since 1998, received four awards by National Garden Clubs, Inc., at the 89th Annual NGC National Convention held in Philadelphia from May 20-24, including two firsts, one third and one recognition.
Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry President and CEO John Quigley has been chosen by The Daily Herald Business Ledger as a 2018 C-Suite of the Year Awards honoree.
The Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry is seeking qualified candidates to fill a permanent part-time position of Office Manager, working an average of 25 hours per week at an hourly wage of $20 per hour.
Some 80 Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry members and guests savor Barbeque Jim’s roast pig with all the fixings at the Fifth Annual Chamber Pig Roast at The Silverado Grill on June 13.
The Elmhurst Independent is presenting a special keepsake publication that will feature the history of the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce and Industry over the last 100 years.
More than 90 entries marched in Elmhurst’s 100th Annual Memorial Day Parade through downtown Elmhurst on May 28.
Abraham Lincoln (as portrayed by Kevin Wood), America’s President during the Civil War, will march in Elmhurst’s 100th Annual Memorial Day Parade through downtown Elmhurst on Monday, May 28, at 9:30 a.m. and then speak at the Post-Parade Military Ceremony at the Veterans’ Memorial in Wilder Park at 11 a.m.
In conjunction with Elmhurst’s 100th Memorial Day Parade, True Patriots Care will stage a patriotic display of more than 1,600 American flags—honoring Vietnam War service members who were prisoners of war (POW) and missing in action (MIA)—throughout Wilder Park from Thursday p.m. through Tuesday a.m., May 24-29.
The Grand Marshal for Elmhurst’s 100th Memorial Day Parade is Elmhurst resident Mark R. Mallon, a medal-winning Colonel in the United States Army Reserves who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.