The Village of Hodgkins was originally known as Gary, a name locals claim was derived from " Garibaldi ", in recognition of the large number of Italian laborers working in an area grain mill.

After several name changes, the Village of Hodgkins was incorporated in 1896.

In 1985 Hodgkins joined with the Village of McCook to create the McCook-Hodgkins Enterprise Zone.

The Kimball and Cobb Stone Quarry, organized in 1888, was the first major business in the area that would later become the Village of Hodgkins.

this designation would stick until July 1, 1896 when the Village of Hodgkins was incorporated.

Meyer was strongly in favor of the movement and immediately set about to conduct the first Lutheran worship services in Hodgkins, in the old Village Hall in the spring of 1911.

The Old Hodgkins Village Hall & Fire Station was erected in 1940 to replace the original which was destroyed by fire.

The beautifully refirbished building stands at 6511 Kane Avenue, and is home to the Village of Hodgkins Historical Society.

From the early days of the village, Hodgkins maintained its own fire fighting capabilities, going from an organized bucket brigade that assembled at the ringing of the large bell aptop the original wood frame Village Hall at the turn of the 20th century, to a Volunteer Fire Department with two full-time firefighters augmented by other volunteers who manned three fire engines.

The Village of Hodgkins currently employs 25 full-and part-time employees.

This list of past presidents of the Village of Hodgkins comes from the village's publication, 100 Years of Progress, published for the Village's Centennial celebration in 1996.

* Village of Hodgkins Official Webpage

All the communities with the exception of Ridgway and Ouray serve as primarily residential communities, though Loghill Village maintains a small tourism sector.

These departments handle resident concerns, execute and enforce the legislation passed by the Board of Trustees, and maintains order in fulfilling the daily operations of the Village.

MOLA also maintains the Whippoorwill Farm Preserve, an open lands area owned by the Village ( just west of I-94 at the northwest corner of IL-60 / Townline Road and Riverwoods Boulevard ).

The Lake County Forest Preserve District maintains five forest preserves within Village Boundaries, including Old School, Grainger Woods, McArthur Woods, Captain Daniel Wright Woods and Adlai Stevenson Historic Home.

The Village maintains a low-density five-acre zoning requirement for residential development.

A local organization, the Friends of Historic Meridian, has an archive of local historic information and also maintains the historic buildings in the Meridian Historical Village.

It still maintains an all volunteer roster and offers Fire and EMS services to the Village of Elmira Heights, and the Towns of Elmira and Horseheads.

The Village of Fairport still maintains the ambiance of a canal town and capitalizes on the recreational aspects of that canal.

The Village of Asharoken maintains its own private police force, paid for predominantly by property taxes on village residents.

A non-profit Village Improvement Society, dating from 1910, currently owns and maintains eight parks.

Fishburne lives in Hollywood and also maintains a residence in New York City, in the Castle Village Co-Op in the Hudson Heights section of Washington Heights.

The Village of Webster also maintains the Village Band shell at Harmony Park on Foster Drive off Phillips Road.

The Village maintains a comprehensive calendar on the Village of Webster Website.

The AAP is headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and maintains its Department of Federal Affairs office in Washington, D. C.

Owned by Sunbeam Television, WSVN maintains studios in North Bay Village.

While the university's main campus is located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Mannes maintains its main academic building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Village Kotha and Grama Sabha maintains the harmony and all the disputes of the village.

Owned by the Meredith Corporation, KPHO maintains studios on Black Canyon Highway in Phoenix's Alhambra Village section.

The Village maintains a strong character and identity.

Because of its relatively small size for a capital city, Bonn was sometimes referred to, jokingly, as the Bundeshauptstadt ohne nennenswertes Nachtleben ( Federal capital without noteworthy night-life ) or the Bundesdorf ( Federal Village ).

Later, when The Village Voice conducted its Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 2001, " Love and Theft " topped the list, the third Dylan album to accomplish this.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Van McCoy, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Chic, and The Jacksons — the latter which first dipped its toes into disco as The Jackson 5.

The next day, Lesi Korovavala, Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs, told the Fiji Village news service that the Military had undertaken the reductions on its own initiative, in consultation with the department, an explanation corroborated by Lieutenant Colonel Rabukawaqa.

As Greenwich Village was once a rural hamlet, to the north of the 17th century European settlement on Manhattan Island, its street layout is more haphazard than the grid pattern of the 19th-century grid plan ( based on the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 ).

Due in part to the progressive attitudes of many of its residents, the Village has traditionally been a focal point of new movements and ideas, whether political, artistic, or cultural.

Soon after its completion in 1857, the building helped to make Greenwich Village central to the arts in New York City, drawing artists from all over the country to work, exhibit, and sell their art.

Political rebellion also made its home here, whether serious ( John Reed ) or frivolous ( Marcel Duchamp and friends set off balloons from atop Washington Square Arch, proclaiming the founding of " The Independent Republic of Greenwich Village ").

In recent days, the Village has maintained its role as a center for movements that have challenged the wider American culture, for example, its role in the gay liberation movement.

ANb's Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope has been described as " the Paul's Boutique of grindcore ", by Village Voice critic Phil Freeman, for its " hyper-referential, impossibly dense barrage of samples, blast beats, answering machine messages, and incomprehensibly bellowed rants.

On Wednesday, however, The Village Voice ran reports of the riots, written by Howard Smith and Lucian Truscott, that included unflattering descriptions of the events and its participants: " forces of faggotry ," " limp wrists " and " Sunday fag follies ".

Alone, he struggles with multiple goals: determining for which side the Village works, remaining defiant to its imposed authority, concocting his own plans for escape, learning all he can about the Village and subverting its operation.

On December 11, 2011, Vangelis was invited by Katara's Cultural Village in the state of Qatar to conceive, design, direct, and compose music for the opening of its world-class outdoor amphitheater.

** Man of La Mancha opens in a Greenwich Village theatre in New York and eventually becomes one of the greatest musical hits of all time, winning a Tony Award for its star, Richard Kiley.

Herăstrău is located in the north of the city, around Lake Herăstrău, and is the site of the Village Museum, while the Botanical Garden is the largest of its kind in Romania and contains over 10, 000 species of plants, many of them exotic ; it was once a pleasure park for the royal family.

Celebration Place nearly spans the gap between the two sections of Celebration Boulevard, except that its eastern end terminates at the Water Tower Plaza instead of at the entrance to North Village on the other side of State Road 417.

In fact, in 2009, Le Clos Jordanne winery, of Jordan Village on the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario received critical acclaim for its 2005 Claystone Terrace Chardonnay, which won the top spot for Chardonnay in the " Judgement of Montreal " experts ’ tasting.

A free gondola connects the town with its companion town, Mountain Village, Colorado, at the base of the ski area.

There is a collection of furniture and utensils at Hancock Shaker Village outside of Pittsfield, Massachusetts that is famous for its elegance and practicality.

The Oakland Mills Village Center had a traditional Village Center layout — stores located off a central corridor — until its demolition in the late 1990s.