Lisle, Woodridge Girl Scouts Celebrate 100th Anniversary

The Girl Scouts have turned 100, and Lisle and Woodridge troops of the Greene Wood Service Unit marked the occasion with a Promise Circle, games and anniversary necklaces Monday night. 

Juliette Gordon Low founded Girl Scouting on March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia. 

At 7:12 p.m., military time for 1912, the troops of the Girl Scouts of Chicago and northwest Indiana formed Promise Circles in their respective locations to say the Girl Scout promise, law and to sing “Make New Friends.”

Girl scouts gathered in downtown Downers Grove, the Promenade in Bolingbrook, Fox Valley Mall in Aurora and in Woodridge. 

Several of the adults and some of the Girl Scouts sported 100th anniversary T-shirts designed by 13-year-old Kali Lang. Lang's design was picked from hundreds of applications from Chicago and northwest Indiana.