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Lombard, IL, the "Lilac Village," is a western suburb of Chicago that is located in DuPage County and is located about 20 miles directly west from downtown Chicago and 13.5 miles from First Peek Ultrasound, in Oak Park, IL, and it takes about 20 to 25 minutes to drive from Lombard to Oak Park. The population was 42,322 according to the now-outdated 2000 census.

Originally part of the Potawatomi Indian lands, the Lombard area was first settled by Americans of European descent in the 1830s. Lombard shares its early history with Glen Ellyn. Brothers Ralph and Morgan Babcock settled in a grove of trees along the DuPage River. In what was known as Babcock's Grove, Lombard developed to the east and Glen Ellyn to the west. In 1837, Babcock's Grove was connected to Chicago by a stagecoach line which stopped at Stacy's Tavern at Geneva and St. Charles Roads. Fertile land, the DuPage River, and plentiful timber drew farmers to the area.

On April 6, 1891, Ellen Martin led a group of women to the voting place at the general store. She demanded that the three-male election judges allow the women to vote. The judges were so surprised that one of them had a "spasm," one leaned against the wall for support, and the other fell backwards into a barrel of flour! They did not want to let the women vote, so a county judge was asked to decide. He agreed that the women were right. Ellen Martin then became the first woman in Illinois to vote! By 1916, Illinois women could vote in national elections, although the 19th Amendment, the Women's Suffrage Amendment, was not passed until 1920.

The famous Little Orphan Annie House is located at 119 N. Main Street, in Lombard, IL. Dr. William LeRoy built this home in the Italianate style on Lombard's Main Street in 1881. Dr. LeRoy specialized in making artificial limbs for civil war veterans and lived in this house until 1900. The house eventually became the home of Harold Gray's parents and the studio of Harold Gray, the originator of the Little Orphan Annie cartoon strip. Harold Gray used the home's study to work on the Annie cartoons, and some features of the house are drawn into some of his cartoons, such as the grand staircase and the outer deck. Later he remarried and moved to the east coast.

In 1910, William R. Plum, a retired Chicago lawyer, civil war veteran, and Lombard resident, began collecting lilacs. The Plum garden became known as Lilacia, where over two hundred varieties of the flowering bush grew. In 1927, William and Helen Plum donated their estate to the village. The garden became a park, and their home became the Lombard public library. In 1929, the landscape artist Jens Jensen was hired by the Lombard Park District to design the park. The first Lilac Festival was held the following year and continues annually during May. The scientific name for lilac is Syringa.

Since 1930, Lombard has hosted an annual Lilac Festival and parade in May. "Lilac Time in Lombard" is a 16-day festival ending in mid-May. It starts with the Lilac Queen coronation and her court. The grand finale is Lombard's Lilac Festival Parade.

The Lombard effect or Lombard reflex is the involuntary tendency of speakers to increase the intensity of their voice when speaking in loud noise to enhance its audibility. This change includes not only loudness but also other acoustic features, such as pitch and rate and duration of sound syllables. This compensation effect results in an increase in the auditory signal-to-noise ratio of the speaker’s spoken words. The effect was discovered in 1909 by Étienne Lombard, a French otolaryngologist.