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10 unusual facts about Glenview


Angel de la Torre

He would teach at Tamarisk Country Club in Palm Springs in the winter months and at Glenview Naval Air Station in Glenview, Illinois in the summer.

Beltone

Founded in 1940, Beltone is a hearing aid company headquartered in Glenview, Illinois, and one of the largest, most advanced manufacturers and distributors of hearing aids in the world.

Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City

However, its colors were retired soon after on November 15, 1996, and the facility ceased operations concurrent with the closure of NAS Glenview due to BRAC action.

On April 1, 1995, Air Station Chicago transitioned to Air Facility Glenview at the former Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois and fell under operational control of Air Station Traverse City.

Dimond District, Oakland, California

The Dimond Business District is situated among several of Oakland's neighborhoods including Oakmore, Glenview, and

Eichorst Island

Eichorst Island was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Marvin H. (Ike) Eichorst of Glenview, Illinois, licensed operator of amateur radio station W9RUK who handled radio traffic between points in the United States and Palmer Station during the period 1964-1972.

Glenview, Kentucky

5000 acres of the surrounding land was originally owned by James Smalley Bate and named Berry Hill for his former Virginia home.

Marian Cruger Coffin

Among Coffin's significant commissions during this period were the design of a garden for William Marshall Bullitt's Oxmoor estate in Glenview, Kentucky in 1909, probably due to a recommendation from Henry du Pont.

Naval Air Station Glenview

On 8 July 1968, an A-4B Skyhawk piloted by LT William T. Reinders, USNR, crashed after takeoff into a Glenview home, killing a 13 year old girl.

Robert Kennicott

Kennicott was born in New Orleans and grew up in "West Northfield" (now Glenview), Illinois, a town in the prairie north of the then nascent city of Chicago.


244th Aviation Brigade

The 244th Aviation Brigade was originally constituted on 16 September 1988 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 244th Aviation Group and was activated at Naval Air Station Glenview in Glenview, Illinois.

Cheeburger Cheeburger

When Cheeburger Cheeburger opened a restaurant in Glenview, Illinois, they were sued by Billy Goat Tavern, which had served as the inspiration for the original Olympia Cafe Saturday Night Live parody.

Danny Barbarigos

Dionysus Restaurant, Glenview Illinois (1972–73) was a Greek restaurant.

Glenbrook High School

Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, GBN's sister high school

Lake Country Limited

The initial route was Chicago–Glenview–Janesville; on June 15, 2000 an additional stop was added at Zenda, Wisconsin to serve Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, a popular resort community.

Naval Air Station Glenview

One of the better units based at NAS Glenview in the post-WWII period was Attack Squadron 725 (VA-725), part of NARTU Glenview until 1970, when it was redesignated as Attack Squadron 209 (VA-209) and became part of Carrier Air Wing Reserve TWENTY (CVWR-20) from 1970 onward.

Scott Foresman

In 1966, Scott, Foresman moved from Chicago into its current location in Glenview, Illinois designed by Jeffery Finkle and a new distribution center was opened in Pinola, Indiana.