Bolingbrook IL 50th

Please enjoy browsing through this archived page from 2015 about Bolingbrook history and its yearlong 50th birthday celebration. The page is no longer updated.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BOLINGBROOK? PART II
Here are the final 30 questions out of 50 in Bolingbrook's anniversary trivia quiz. Look for the answers in a few days.
21. Where can you see a fish catching a man? ______

22. How old was Bolingbrook when the park district was formed?
A. Park district was first
B. The next year
C. 3 years
D. 5 years

23. How many full-size golf holes are there in Bolingbrook? ____

24. What was Historic Bolingbrook?
A. Where the settlers first started farming
B. Where the first village hall was built
C. Where the old historic church was
D. Where the first subdivisions were built

25. Who was the Blue Fairy and what did she promote starting in 1989? ___________

26. What year was the first fire station opened?
A. 1961
B. 1962
C. 1964
D. 1965
E. 1968

27. How many Village Halls has Bolingbrook built?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

28. How many fire stations has Bolingbrook built?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

29. Where does Bolingbrook hold municipal court?
A. 444 E. Briarcliff Road
B. 168 E. Boughton Road
C. 375 W. Briarcliff Road
D. 101 S. Weber Road

30. What is state highway Rt. 53 called as it passes through Bolingbrook? _________

31. How many jails has Bolingbrook had?
A. 1, after that they went to Will County lock-up
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

32. When did Bolingbrook get its first shopping center, and what was the anchor store?
A. 1968 – A & P
B. 1972 – Zayre
C. 1975 – Crawford’s
D. 1978 – Kmart

34. How many people on the Village Board can vote?
E. 6
F. 7
G. 12
H. 15

33. How many public schools were there 50 years ago, in 1965?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

34. How many public schools are located in Bolingbrook in 2015?
A. 10
B. 12
C. 14
D. 16

35. What does “365” stand for in the school district name Valley View 365-U?
A. Number of days of the year
B. Month and year – March of ’65 – it was created
C. Number of students originally enrolled
D. Designation by the State of Illinois

36. What was nicknamed the “road to nowhere” in the '80s?
A. 111th Street, because it led to no buildings at all at first
B. Lily Cache Lane, which wasn’t even paved in the 1960s
C. Naperville Road, which went north
D. Schmidt Road, which dead ended at a farm field

37. What was nicknamed the “White House”?
A. Little white farmhouse that became village hall
B. Little white farmhouse that became a rec center
C. Big white house owned by Royce family
D. Big white house lived in by Clow family at the airport

38. How many traffic signals does Bolingbrook have in 2015?
A. 53
B. 61
C. 79
D. 95

39. How many Hollywood movies filmed some scenes in Bolingbrook? Can you name them and where they filmed?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
E. 6

40. How many Bolingbrook schools and public buildings are named for local people?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. 10

41. Approximately how many square feet of stores does Bolingbrook have in 2015?
A. 6.7 million sf
B. 145,000 sf
C. 589,000 sf
D. 2.4 million sf

42. How many houses were there when Bolingbrook was incorporated?
A. 325
B. 587
C. 1,200
D. 5,300

43. Name the current Village Board of Trustees. ____________________

44. Name the main waterways through Bolingbrook. _________________

45. How old is Bolingbrook Golf Club in 2015?
A. 8 years
B. 9 years
C. 12 years
D. 13 years

46. What is Bolingbrook’s approximate population expected to be by the end of its 50th anniversary year?
A. 50,000
B. 65,000
C. 75,000
D. 100,000

47. What school burned down in a New Year’s fire in 1980?
A. Oak View
B. North View
C. Wood View
D. Brook View

48. What was the significance of 739 and 759? ____________________

49. Why are the mailboxes at the curb, and not on the houses? _________________

50. When did Bolingbrook first get a post office? ___________