Clarendon Hills (other)
Clarendon Hills is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Clarendon Hills or Clarendon Hill may also refer to: * Clarendon Hills (wine), an Australian winery in McLaren Vale, Southern Australia * Clarendon Hills (Metra), is a metra station in Clarendon Hills, Illinois * Clarendon Hill, a hill in Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a total population of 81, ...

Clarendon Hills
Clarendon Hills is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,702 at the 2020 census. It is a south-west suburb of Chicago. History The area that is now Clarendon Hills was a wide, rolling prairie bordering the east side of Westmont. Most of the older villages in Downers Grove Township were built on the same street grid as the Village of Downers Grove. Instead, Clarendon Hills was built to resemble nearby Riverside, a planned, park-like suburb designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted in the late 1800s. Its long winding streets go with the natural contour of the land, rather than extending straight through from the neighboring towns. In 1923, at the time of incorporation, Clarendon Hills had a population of under 900 people. The area was incorporated to avoid annexation by the nearby community of Hinsdale. The Clarendon Hills Historical Society is tasked with retaining the town's history and establishing a community center and a museum to display promi ...
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Clarendon Hills (wine)
Clarendon Hills is an Australian winery founded in 1990 by Roman Bratasiuk. Background In 1990, Roman Bratasiuk founded Clarendon Hills winery in Clarendon, south of Adelaide, McLaren Vale Wine Region in South Australia. The region was selected because of the significant number of old (aged 50 to 90 years) vineyards nearby. The township of Clarendon was established in 1880 by European migrants, who brought with them original French vine cuttings, propagating vineyards across the surrounding hilltops. Grenache, Syrah Merlot, Mourvedre, and Cabernet Sauvignon vineyards are sourced by Clarendon Hills within the Clarendon, Blewitt Springs and Kangarilla districts. Bratasiuk exclusively produces single-vineyard wines, which was unusual when he started in 1990. In 1996, wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., Robert Parker named Bratasiuk wine producer of the year. After this, Astralis became a cult wine. Two vintages of Astralis (1996 and 1994) were recently included within the "Great ...
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Clarendon Hills (Metra)
Clarendon Hills is a station on Metra's BNSF Line in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. The station is 18.3 rail miles (29.5 km) from Chicago Union Station, the east end of Metra service on this line. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Clarendon Hills is in zone 3. As of 2018, Clarendon Hills is the 66th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 799 weekday boardings. The inbound station building (south of the tracks) was staffed until June 11, 2018. It later was replaced with an unstaffed building. Groundbreaking was on Jan 6, 2020; ribbon-cutting was on Nov 7, 2022. The outbound side has only two small covered shelters, one of which also provides bicycle racks and the other is a weather-protected warming center. Clarendon Hills' central business district is directly southwest of the station. As of April 29, 2024, Clarendon Hills is served by 30 inbound trains and 27 outbound trains (57 total) on Weekdays along with 33 trains (16 inbound and 17 outbound) ...
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