Photo gallery: A history of Bensenville

The First State Bank in Bensenville, shortly after it was held up in an early morning robbery.   (Tribune archive photo / Chicago Tribune)

Yardmaster Victor Cheesebro of Bensenville checks lists of trains being assembled at the railroad yards.   (Tribune archive photo / Chicago Tribune)

A view of the railroard yard in Bensenville.   (Julius Gantter / Chicago Tribune)

Members of the Bensenville Fire Department prepare to march in a parade.   (Tribune archive photo / Chicago Tribune)

Box cars head east at the railroad yards in Bensenville.  (Tribune archive photo / Chicago Tribune)

Bensenville voters will go to the polls to decide whether to replace this 50-year-old white frame house at Irving Park and Church roads as the village’s community library. If approved, the referendum would provide new a new building in Lions Park at Addison and Wood streets. Oct. 6, 1965  (Tribune archive photo / Chicago Tribune)

The Bensenville Village Hall, 3 S. York Road, will be replaced with a new facility at Irving Park and Church roads.   (Tribune archive photo / Chicago Tribune)

A fire in the round house at the Milwaukee Road railyard in Bensenville destroyed thousands of dollars of railroad equipment and forced the evacuation of nearby apartment buildings. No injuries were reported.   (Jack Harron / Chicago Tribune)

Members of the Resident’s Council of the Bensenville Home Society untie ribbons from a van given as a gift by Elmhurst Ford Motors.   (Tribune archive photo / Chicago Tribune)

Firefighters battle a blaze that raced through the block-long Montgomery Ward warehouse in Bensenville. The fire was fed by a series of blasts as stored ammunition exploded. The company called the structure a “total loss.”  (George Quinn / Chicago Tribune)

A worker puts sand in a locomotive at the railroad yards near Green Street and Mount Prospect Road in Bensenville.   (Don Casper / Chicago Tribune)

Downtown Bensenville, as seen looking south on Center Street from Main Street.   (Jim Robinson / Chicago Tribune)

Carlie Franz turns around to whisper with Jamie Ramos as the students from Elmhurst’s Lincoln School take a trip back in time to Churchville School in Bensenville, a one-room school owned by the Bensenville Historical Society.   (Chucck Berman / Chicago Tribune)

Students from Lincoln School in Elmhurst went back 100 years in time at the Churchville School in Bensenville. The one-room school is owned by the Bensenville Historical Society.   (Chuck Berman / Chicago Tribune)

Insurance investigator L.J. Pierce climbs through the crumbled masonry at the Watrous Inc. factory in Bensenville. An explosion blew out the rear wall of the plant and started a fire that swept through the 8,500-square-foot structure.   (Jose More / Chicago Tribune)

A DuPage County sheriff’s deputy covers an apartment during a standoff in Bensenville.   (Karen Engstrom / Chicago Tribune)

SWAT team members clear out after a standoff with a suspect who had barricaded himself inside a Bensenville apartment. One deputy was slightly wounded by gunfire.   (Karen Engstrom / Chicago Tribune)

Demolition in downtown Bensenville is making way for an apartment, office and retail building at Addison, Green and Mason streest as part of a redevelopment project. The village, which purchased the land, will also make street, landscaping, water and parking improvements.   (John Dziekan / Chicago Tribune)

Herb Buetow (left) and Monroe Fischer discuss saving the house in the background, which is one of the oldest in Bensenville. Fischer was born inthe house, which was built in 1838.   (John Dziekan / Chicago Tribune)

Strip development along Irving Park Road in Bensenville.   (Carl Wagner / Chicago Tribune)

Bensenville Assistant Village Manager Byron Vana shows garbage dumped illegally on village property.   (Michael Budrys / Chicago Tribune)

Dick Glidden (second from the left) of Alpha Structures directs workers at White Pines Golf Course in Bensenville as they try to set up a dome for indoor golf.   (James F. Quinn / Chicago Tribune)

Pool and table tennis are just a few of the enticements the Bensenville Youth Services Department offers teenagers at its center in Veteran’s Park, 105 N. Church Road.   (Jose Osorio / Chicago Tribune)