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Wheaton's campus features the Billy Graham Center, named for the college's most famous alumnus, which contains a museum dedicated to both the history of American evangelism and the international ministry of Billy Graham. It features conceptual exhibits intended to convey Christian ideas.
Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. . Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin Co
The library classified books with the Dewey Decimal system, becoming one of the first in Illinois to use this system. Adams Memorial was the main library in the region until a new library was constructed in 1965. The endowment from Adams completely supported the facility until 1923, when Wheaton provided additional funds.
A History of DuPage County, Richmond & Vallette 1857. A History of DuPage County, C. W. Richmond 1876. History of DuPage County, Rufus Blanchard 1882. Report of Council of Congregational Churches, Held in Wheaton in February 1879. "College Church in Wheaton". New York: American Guild of Organists. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011
Olcott is located in Wheaton, IL, near the Billy Graham Center, a major Evangelical Christian organization and Cantigny Park. Many local college students utilize the Olcott Library, including students from nearby Wheaton College, DePaul University, North Central College, and the College of DuPage.
Cantigny (/ k æ n ˈ t iː n i / kan-TEE-nee) is a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) park in Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the Chicago Tribune, and is open to the public. Cantigny comprises expansive formal and informal gardens, a Georgian ...
Blanchard Hall is the main building of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Construction of Blanchard Hall began in 1853, and the building was completed in 1927. The building takes its name from Jonathan Blanchard, the founder of the college, and his son Charles A. Blanchard. The elder Blanchard sought to make the building a symbol of the ...
Chicago Golf Club is a private golf club in the central United States, located in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago.It is the second home of the club, the first being Belmont Golf Club in Downers Grove, IL, the site of the oldest 18 hole course in [2] North America, it was one of the five founding clubs of the United States Golf Association (USGA) in 1894.