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The Committee was appointed by Judge Win Knoch, General Chairman of the Naperville Centennial Celebration, and consisted of 33 residents who each paid $500, a total of $16,500, to purchase the 45 acres (180,000 m 2) of 1 large and 1 small limestone quarry (later merged to create 1 swimming pool) as well as other land in Downtown Naperville near ...
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 ...
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.
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McDowell Grove Forest Preserve, located in Naperville, state of Illinois, is a 439-acre (178 ha) preserve on the West Branch of the DuPage River.. The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County purchased the first tract of land for this preserve from Alexander McDowell in 1930.
Though the town built a courthouse, a court decided in favor of Wheaton. The courthouse was demolished and was converted to a park. The First Congregational Church of Naperville was founded in 1833, and is the oldest church in DuPage County. [2] Naperville primarily found economic success through the management of local resources.
In 1857, the Illinois state legislature authorized an election to be held to decide the question of whether the DuPage county seat should remain in Naperville or be moved to the more centrally located Wheaton, which was on the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad. Naperville won the election by a vote of 1,542 to 762.