

(Brett Johnson / Chicago Tribune) Many area schools, including Hinsdale High School District 86, its seven. A petition shows more than 2,100 signatures in support of stopping the sale (according to the 2020 US Census, Willow Springs had a total population of 5,857). at 5:20 am Expand The Rotary Clock in Hinsdale during a 2015 snowstorm. Lenzen, who also serves on the board of the school district, said she is rallying with neighbors to fight the plan. “And if we put in this trucking warehouse, are we thinking about the pollution, the traffic?” “We have our littlest learners outside for a majority of the day,” Lenzen said. The property has been owned by Lyons Township High School District 204 for decades, but the district is considering selling the property - which is currently zoned only for light business and residential development - to a company called Bridge Industrial for $55 million. The 70-acre green space butts up to Pleasantdale Elementary School and serves as a backdrop for the homes that border it, but neighbors worry it won’t stay much longer.

“We go for nature walks, we take the kids, we take the dogs up there,” said Mary Lenzen, a local mother to a second grader. A school district in Willow Springs is considering the sale of a green space bordering an elementary school to an industrial development company, much to the displeasure of local residents. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
