Lombard

History

Lombard was originally named "Babcock's Grove", after the Babcock brothers, early settlers along the DuPage River. It was renamed for a real estate developer who mapped out plans for the settlement in 1868. Sheldon and Harriet Peck moved from Onondaga, New York, to this area in 1837 to farm of land. In addition, Peck was an artist and primitive portrait painter who traveled to clients across northeastern Illinois. The Peck house also served as the area's first school and has been restored by the Lombard Historical Society. In 2011, the Peck House was inducted into the National Park Service's Network to Freedom—a list of verified Underground Railroad locations. The 1848 arrival of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad provided local farmers and merchants rail access to Chicago, and commercial buildings soon sprang up around the train station. Lombard was officially incorporated in 1869, named after Chicago banker and real estate developer Josia Lewis Lombard. They acquiesced to Ellen, but fundamentally did not want to let the women vote, so a county judge was asked to decide. He agreed that the women were right. Ellen Martin then became the first woman in Illinois to vote, and one of the first in the entire U.S. In 1916 Illinois women could vote in national elections, but the 19th Amendment (the Women's Suffrage Amendment) was not passed until 1920. In 2008, Lombard declared April 6 to be "Ellen Martin Day" in commemoration of Ms. Martin's historic victory for women's suffrage. William LeRoy built a home in the Italianate style on Lombard's Main Street in 1881. LeRoy specialized in making artificial limbs for civil war veterans and lived in this house until 1900. The house would eventually become the home of Harold Gray's parents and the studio of Harold Gray, the…

Geography

According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Lombard has a total area of , of which (or 98.21%) is land and (or 1.79%) is water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  85,801
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  79,631
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  62,548
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  59,761
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  58,225
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  57,950
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  56,005
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  55,796

Largest nearby schools

• York Comm High School
  High · Elmhurst · 2,707 students · 15.3:1 ratio
• Comm H S Dist 99 - South High Sch
  High · Downers Grove · 2,637 students · 14.7:1 ratio
• Lake Park High School
  High · Roselle · 2,560 students · 15.1:1 ratio
• Naperville North High School
  High · Naperville · 2,553 students · 14:1 ratio
• Hinsdale Central High School
  High · Hinsdale · 2,472 students · 14.3:1 ratio
• Glenbard West High School
  High · Glen Ellyn · 2,324 students · 17.7:1 ratio
• Glenbard East High School
  High · Lombard · 2,275 students · 16.5:1 ratio
• Glenbard North High School
  High · Carol Stream · 2,162 students · 15.6:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.9 — 2026-07-08
  21 km ENE of Kenilworth, Illinois
• M 2.6 — 2025-03-15
  6 km W of Dwight, Illinois
• M 3.1 — 2024-07-15
  2 km WNW of Somonauk, Illinois
• M 2.9 — 2015-03-25
  3 km WNW of Lake in the Hills, Illinois
• M 3.2 — 2013-11-04
  1 km SSW of Lyons, Illinois
• M 2.6 — 2013-06-10
  4 km NNE of Virgil, Illinois