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The area around Westmont became one of the most prosperous sections of the state. In order to transport agricultural products into the city of Chicago, construction of a plank road from Chicago began in 1840. The path traversed the nine-mile (14 km) swamp between Chicago and the area that later became Westmont; it reached Naperville by 1851. [4]
The dilapidated house was considered for demolition in the 1970s, but a historical group restored the house. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980; The following year, it became the Westmont Historical Society museum. [2]
DuPage County (/ d uː ˈ p eɪ dʒ / doo-PAYJ) is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 932,877, making it Illinois' second-most populous county. Its county seat is Wheaton. [2]
The school was created as part of the newly formed CUSD 201 in Westmont in 1972, and first opened for education in September 1974. [citation needed]The community approved building the new high school in 1973, and the current Westmont High School building opened in October 1976.
Westmont is a station on Metra's BNSF Line in Westmont, Illinois. The station is 19.4 miles (31.2 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line. [2] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Westmont is in zone 3. As of 2018, Westmont is the 44th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,083 weekday boardings. [1]
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The rear façade of Mayslake Hall. The Mayslake Peabody Estate is an estate constructed as a country home for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1922. [3] The estate is located in the western Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, and is now part of the Mayslake Forest Preserve administered by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.
Elected the 13th Illinois Governor (1861–1865) Elected United States Senator from Illinois (1865–1871) Robert R. Hitt: Appointed the 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (1881) Served as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution (1893–1906) William Lorimer: Elected United States Senator from Illinois (1909–1912) Henry Hyde