Glen Ellyn is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. A suburb located 24 miles (39 km) due west of downtown Chicago, the village has a population of 28,846 as of the 2020 Census.

Glen Ellyn, like the neighboring town to the east, Lombard, had its genesis in an 1833 claim by two brothers from the Finger Lakes region of New York, Morgan and Ralph Babcock. The two claimed property in a large stand of timber near present-day St. Charles Road and the East Branch of the DuPage River. The brothers also contracted for a affirmation for their New York neighbor Deacon Winslow Churchill, who arrived in 1834 along considering some of his adult children and their families. The nascent concurrence became known as Babcock’s Grove, and it included property currently portion of both Glen Ellyn and Lombard.

Up the trail from the river to the west was a five-cornered intersection. In 1835, Daniel Fish built a cabin there, and other settlers followed. By the 1840s the intersection was called Fish’s Corners and held a general store, blacksmith’s forge, shops selling or repairing wagons and harnesses, and a Baptist church.

Moses Stacy, a soldier in the War of 1812, arrived  in 1835 and construct a house south of Fish’s Corners. In 1846, Stacy built at the five corners an inn, Stacy’s Tavern, to sustain as a halfway stop between Chicago and the Fox River Valley and a probable stop for Galena, Illinois stagecoaches upon their habit to Rockford, Illinois. Stacy’s Tavern, now a historical monument, stands at what is now the intersection of Geneva Road and Main Street.