Bolingbrook IL 50th

FINAL TRIVIA QUIZ QUESTIONS, 40-50
40. 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
41. How many Bolingbrook schools and public buildings are named for local people?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. 10
42. 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
43. How many houses were there when Bolingbrook was incorporated?
A. 325
B. 587
C. 1,200
D. 5,300
44. Name the current Village Board of Trustees. ____________
45. Name the main waterways through Bolingbrook. _________
46. How old is Bolingbrook Golf Club in 2015?
A. 8 years
B. 9 years
C. 12 years
D. 13 years
47. 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
48. What school burned down in a New Year’s fire in 1980?
A. Oak View
B. North View
C. Wood View
D. Brook View
49. What was the significance of 739 and 759? ____________________
50. Why are the mailboxes at the curb, and not on the houses? _________________
BONUS: When did Bolingbrook get its own Post Office?

ANSWERS TO TRIVIA QUIZ QUESTIONS 1-20
1. Issuing a liquor license for the grocery store
2. Jack Leonard
3. Patricia McDowell
4. 50 park sites
5. Addams Middle School
6. 1971 Bolingbrook Fire Dept. broke from Lemont's
7. 3 -- Los Burritos Tapatios, Coop’s Den, Portillo’s now
8. 3 Ronald Reagan, George Walker Bush, Barack Obama
9. Salk Elementary School
10. Bob Bailey
11. Bolingbrook Commons
12. Totura’s on Frontage Road
13. Instituted year-round 45/15 school year
14. 1977, Plitt Theater, across from Old Chicago
15. 1968 1st paid patrol officer
16. 60439, 60440, 60490
17. Village Clerk’s (For 2 years. Farmhouse was PD, except dispatch at mayor’s house. Board met at North View)
18. Indoor stores and rides
19. 5 years 1975-80 Old Chicago
20. Definitely two – 1963 and 1965. Tries at incorporating.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
PATHWAYS PARADE, SUNDAY, SEPT. 13, 2 pm. Original Bolingbrookers wasted no time in staging a parade to mark the anniversary of their new town. The first Pathways Parade was Sept. 25, 1966. This year's 50th Anniversary Pathways Parade will proceed from Bolingbrook High School, east on Lily Cache Lane, north on Canterbury Lane to Briarcliff Road, turning west to the entrance to the Town Center. A mini-fest with food and beverages, a live band, games for the kids and parade awards immediately follows. Photos from 1960s and '70s parades.

WINNERS OF GREAT SELFIES SCAVENGER HUNT!
These people really know Bolingbrook. Using 25 clues to distinctive places around Bolingbrook, they found the places, and send in selfies to prove it. That's how you play the 50th Anniversary Selfie Scavenger Hunt. It's over now, and we can announce the winners.
We'll be publishing the clues here over the weekend so you folks at home can have a chance to "play along" too, and never leave your couch.
Perfect scores got a Selfie Stick and a gift card. Runners-up got gift cards or coupons.
PERFECT 25 OUT OF 25: Katie & Nick Mierop, Linda Harris, Linda Regalado, Sue Kunes
24 OUT OF 25: Dwayne Lucero, Pat Foster, Marco Rodriguez, Todd Obmascik
23 OUT OF 25: Ellen Krasin, Janet Autry, Karen Groth, Nicole Marchluk, Christine Buerger