Wood Dale, DuPage County, Illinois, USA

Wood Dale is a city in DuPage County, Illinois. Settlement along Salt Creek included the community known as Dunklee’s Grove, named for an early settler who arrived in 1833. A railroad connecting Chicago and Elgin reached the area in 1873 and helped establish a business center around the depot. The community incorporated as the village of Wood Dale in 1928 and grew rapidly during the decades after World War II.