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Naper Settlement, established in 1969, is a 12-acre (49,000 m 2) outdoor history museum accredited by the American Alliance of Museums that consists of a collection of thirty historical buildings and structures from the Naperville, Illinois area.
The Naperville City Council established the Naperville Historic District in 1986. [ 3 ] In 2019, North Central College announced their plans to purchase and demolish the P. E. Kroehler mansion, owned by Little Friends, for the purpose of rezoning and redeveloping the property with new academic buildings. [ 4 ]
Naperville (/ ˈ n eɪ p ər ˌ v ɪ l / NAY-pər-vil) is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.It is a southwestern suburb of Chicago located 28 miles (45 km) west of the city on the DuPage River.
When Harold White and Gordon Haist bought The Naperville Sun for $600 in 1936, the year-old publication was little more than a typewriter, a desk and a name. [1] At the end of The Sun's first year the paper was still being distributed for free to some 2,000 families, and printed in Downers Grove, Illinois, for a fee that exceeded the revenue coming in, while its size had dwindled to four pages.
The Naperville Park District owns and/or operates 139 parks, totaling over 2,500 acres (10 km 2). It serves about 60,000 participants each year through more than 900 recreational, arts, and environmental programs and events for all ages. The District is governed by a seven-member Board of Commissioners, elected at-large by Naperville voters. As ...
She spent her teenage years in Naperville. [4] Kay Panabaker, child actress (Phil of the Future, No Ordinary Family). She was raised in Naperville. [4] Chris Redd, cast member on Saturday Night Live [5] Alene Robertson, musical theatre actress, winner of nine Joseph Jefferson Awards and 2014 Sarah Siddons Award [6]
Naperville High school was established in 1916. [6] The oldest part of the current building, known by some as the "3-Story Wing," was constructed in 1950. [7] The current Naperville Central building has received building additions in 1955, 1963, 1968, 1987, 1992 and 2009.
Naperville station was originally built in 1910 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. [3] On April 26, 1946, the station was the site of a collision between the CB&Q's Exposition Flyer and Advance Flyer .