Lombard is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.

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.

Sheldon and Harriet Peck moved from Onondaga, New York, to this area in 1837 to farm 80 acres (320,000 m2) of land.

In addition, Peck was an artist and primitive portrait painter who traveled to clients across northeastern Illinois.

[5] In 2011, the Peck House was inducted into the National Park Service's Network to Freedom[6]—a list of verified Underground Railroad locations.

[4] On April 6, 1891, Ellen A. Martin led a group of women to the voting place at the general store.

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.

[8] They acquiesced to Ellen, but fundamentally did not want to let the women vote, so a county judge was asked to decide.

[10] William LeRoy built a home in the Italianate style on Lombard's Main Street in 1881.

LeRoy specialized in making artificial limbs for civil war veterans and lived in this house until 1900.

[citation needed] In 1927, the estate of Colonel William Plum, a local resident, was bequeathed to the village.

According to Lombard's 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[29] the top employers in the city are: Lombard is served by Metra's Union Pacific West Line, which runs from the Ogilvie Transportation Center out to Elburn, Illinois over the old Chicago and Northwestern Railway trackage.

Pace provides bus service on multiple routes connecting Lombard to Naperville, Cicero, and other destinations.