Glen Ellyn

town in DuPage County, Illinois, USA

Place village_of_illinois Q1530761

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of: village of Illinois
Inception: 1834^[7]
Official website: www.glenellyn.org^[9]
Official name: Glen Ellyn^[12]

Location

Country: United States^[3]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 41.871°, -88.063°^[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity: DuPage County^[2]

Population and size

Area: +17.87359, +17.546094^[15]^[16]
Elevation above sea level: +226^[14]
Population: +27450, +28846^[10]^[11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 27,450 · 28,846 GeoNames 28,201 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code: 60137, 60138^[5]^[6]

More facts +4

Number of households: +10747^[13]
Per capita income: +65328^[18]
Twinned administrative body: Le Bouscat^[4]
Water as percent of area: +2.4132^[17]

🏷️ Also known as

en Glen Ellyn en Glen Ellyn, IL en Glen Ellyn, Illinois ar غلن إلين es Glen Ellyn (Illinois) fa گلن الین، ایلینوی ja グレン・エリン ja グレン・エリン (イリノイ州) ko 글렌엘린 ko 글렌 엘린 nl Glen Ellyn (Illinois) pt Glen ellyn pt Glen Ellyn (Illinois) ru Глен-Эллин ru Глен-Эллин (Иллинойс) tr Glen Ellyn, Illinois uk Глен-Еллін vi Glen Ellyn, Illinois zh 格倫埃林 zh-hans 格伦埃林

🔖 Identifiers · 21

VIAF cluster ID: 128554910
Library of Congress authority ID: n81090509
GND ID: 5060555-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Glen-ellyn-historic-district.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID: 28268
Curlie ID: Regional/North_America/United_States/Illinois/Localities/G/Glen_Ellyn/
Encyclopedia of Chicago ID: 517
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: place/Glen-Ellyn
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US): 17-29756
Freebase ID: /m/0s6dd
GNIS Feature ID: 421819, 2398972
GeoNames ID: 4893811

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MusicBrainz area ID: c627b685-0637-4482-8f3f-750211d472b6
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007550575505171
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 125474
Quora topic ID: Glen-Ellyn-IL
Topic's main category: Category:Glen Ellyn, Illinois
WOEID: 2410787
Who's on First ID: 85940159
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJtmq6QYTMfjQYj439Vgrq
Yale LUX ID: place/33fe0452-3746-43ae-8f94-345dafdcece1

📚 Sources · 1

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Located in time zoneP421

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Edition: 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
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🔗 Connections

People born here 11

Katherine Dunham, Jeffery Deaver, Ryan Kelley, Amy Carlson, Bill Ayers, Ethan Cepuran, John Shurna, Jennifer Koh +3 more

People who died here 2

Elek Bacsik, Bill Bolger

Category of associated people 1

Category:People from Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Contained subdivisions 1

Glen Ellyn News

Country 1

United States

Located in the administrative territorial entity 1

DuPage County

Located in time zone 1

Central Time Zone

Residents 1

Benjamin Whisoh Lee

Twinned administrative body 1

Le Bouscat

← Category combines topics 1

Category:People from Glen Ellyn, Illinois

← Place of publication 1

Glen Ellyn News

← Twinned administrative body 1

Le Bouscat

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Summary

Glen Ellyn is a village of Illinois^[1].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[3] ↑ Glen Ellyn — country (P17): United States. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Glen Ellyn — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): DuPage County. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Glen Ellyn — twinned administrative body (P190): Le Bouscat. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Glen Ellyn — postal code (P281): 60137. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Glen Ellyn — postal code (P281): 60138. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Glen Ellyn — inception (P571): 1834. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Glen Ellyn — coordinate location (P625): {'lat': 41.871111111111, 'lon': -88.063055555556}. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Glen Ellyn — official website (P856): http://www.glenellyn.org/. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Glen Ellyn — population (P1082): {'amount': '+27450'}. 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved 2020-07-09. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Glen Ellyn — population (P1082): {'amount': '+28846'}. 2020 United States Census. Retrieved 2022-01-01. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Glen Ellyn — official name (P1448): {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Glen Ellyn'}. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Glen Ellyn — number of households (P1538): {'amount': '+10747'}. 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved 2022-05-05. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Glen Ellyn — elevation above sea level (P2044): 226 m. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Glen Ellyn — area (P2046): 17.87359 km². 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Glen Ellyn — area (P2046): 17.546094 km². 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved 2020-07-09. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Glen Ellyn — water as percent of area (P2927): 2.4132 percent. 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved 2020-07-09. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Glen Ellyn — per capita income (P10622): 65328 US dollars. 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved 2022-04-29. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Glen Ellyn is an instance of village of Illinois (Q110071217) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Category for people born here → Category:Births in Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Inception → —

Located in the administrative territorial entity → DuPage County

Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'azb', 'ceb', 'cs', 'cy', 'dag', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'glk

+ 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

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