On April 15, 1862, the Congregational Church of Danby (now Glen Ellyn) was organized and chartered by eleven people meeting in the Danby schoolhouse on Duane Street. Deacon Yalding, one of the charter members, said he was not going to raise his children in a village "where there was no church, only saloons and houses of ill repute." Within the first year the small group of members purchased a one-room frame New England style meeting house at Stacy's Corner and moved it to a location on Main Street near Crescent Boulevard. By 1883 the women of the Church were able to raise enough funds to purchase a large bell to be hung in the bell tower. That historic bell still rings, hanging in the bell tower today at Forest and Anthony Streets, calling all to worship on Sunday mornings.