Addison, Illinois, United States

🇺🇸 Addison is a village located in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.

History The community itself was originally named Dunkley's Grove after the settler Hezekiah Dunklee, and was renamed after a town in England or Addison, New York. In 1832, Winfield Scott built Army Trail Road on top of a Potawatomi trail in Addison, in order to allow 50 broad-tired wagons to fight Black Hawk and his warriors. In 1864, the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod moved its teacher training to the village from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and established the Addison Teachers Seminary; it remained in Addison until 1913, when it was relocated to River Forest, Illinois, as Concordia Teachers College (now Concordia University Chicago).

The village was incorporated in 1884, at which time it had a population of 400.

Adventureland amusement park was located in Addison (Lake and Medinah) during the 1960s and 1970s. The Addison Industrial District was the proposed location for the reconstruction of Comiskey Park in the late 1980s before this was voted down.

Geography The Village of Addison lies on Salt Creek, a tributary of the Des Plaines River.

According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Addison has a total area of 10.00 square miles (25.90 km²), of which 9.83 square miles (25.46 km²) (or 98.29%) is land and 0.17 square miles (0.44 km²) (or 1.71%) is water.

Economy: Top employers According to Addison's 2022 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city were: 1 United Parcel Service; 2 The Pampered Chef; 3 Parts Town LLC; 4 Walmart; 5 Veritiv Operating Company; 6 Porter Pipe; 7 Insight; 8 SWD, Inc; 9 Republic Services; 10 Option Care.

Arts and culture • Addison Public Library. • Addison Perspective • Addison Center for the Arts.

Education Addison is home to Addison Trail High School and to Indian Trail Junior High School. The Elementary schools are: Ardmore, Wesley Elementary, Lake Park Elementary, Fullerton Elementary, Army Trail Elementary, Lincoln Elementary and Stone Elementary. St. Philip the Apostle, a private Catholic school and parish, is located in Addison and serves students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Driscoll Catholic High School was located in Addison before closing in 2009. DeVry University and Chamberlain College of Nursing also call Addison home. Addison also has an Early Learning Center for 3-5-year-old students in Pre-K.