Elmhurst is a city mostly in DuPage County and overlapping into Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois, and a western suburb of Chicago. As of 2021, the city has an estimated population of 47,260.

Members of the Potawatomi Native American people, who contracted along Salt Creek just south of where the city would develop, are the prehistoric known settlers of the Elmhurst area. Around 1836, European-American immigrants settled on tracts of estate along the similar creek. At what would become Elmhurst City Centre, a native of Ohio named Gerry Bates standard a community on a tract of “treeless land” in 1842.

The past year, Hill Cottage Tavern opened where St. Charles Road and Cottage Hill Avenue presently intersect. In 1845, the community was officially named Cottage Hill when a declare office was established. Four years later, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad was unmodified right-of-way through Cottage Hill giving farmers easier entry to Chicago. The first Elmhurst railroad station was built in 1894. The community tainted its read out to Elmhurst in 1869. In 1871, Elmhurst University was organized and currently has 3,500 undergraduates and virtually 300 graduate students. Elmhurst was incorporated as a village in 1882, with a population amid 723 and 1,050, and real boundaries of St. Charles Road to North Avenue, and one half mile west and one quarter mile east of York Street. Elmhurst Memorial Hospital was founded in 1926 as the first hospital in DuPage County.

The Memorial Parade has run all Memorial Day previously 1918. The annual Elmhurst St. Patrick’s Day Parade continues to be the third largest parade of that sort in the Chicago area, following the more well-known parades downtown and upon the city’s South Side.