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Elmhurst is a city in DuPage County (with a small portion in Cook County), a western suburb of Chicago that had 45,786 residents at the 2020 census.

The Elmhurst area's earliest known settlers were Potawatomi people living along Salt Creek, and European-American settlers began arriving around 1836, with Ohio native Gerry Bates founding a settlement in 1842.

Elmhurst was originally named Cottage Hill when its post office opened in 1845, and it was renamed Elmhurst in 1869, a change credited to prominent resident Thomas Barbour Bryan, known as the 'Father of Elmhurst.'

Elmhurst incorporated as a village on June 5, 1882, when its population was somewhere between 723 and 1,050, and it later adopted the city form of government in 1910.

Elmhurst is home to Elmhurst University, a private liberal arts college affiliated with the United Church of Christ that was organized in 1871 on land donated by Thomas Barbour Bryan; its Old Main hall dates to 1878.

Elmhurst's 45,786 residents lived in 16,808 households at the 2020 census, with a median household income of about $123,869.

Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, founded in 1926, was the very first hospital established in DuPage County, and its successor health system, Edward-Elmhurst Health, remains the city's largest employer.

Elmhurst was the longtime corporate headquarters of the Keebler Company until Kellogg's bought it in 2001, and it remains home to the headquarters of McMaster-Carr Supply Company.

Elmhurst's Wilder Park packs in the Elmhurst Public Library, the Wilder Mansion, the Wilder Park Conservatory, and the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, and hosts the annual Art in Wilder Park show with more than 100 artists.

Elmhurst contains nationally significant architecture, including Frank Lloyd Wright's F. B. Henderson House of 1901 and Mies van der Rohe's McCormick House.