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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]
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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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Following the completion of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1864, shares of the land that was to become Westmont were sold to Phipps Industrial Land Trust. Following the Great Chicago Fire in late 1871, this land was again sold to several brick manufacturers to accelerate the regrowth of the city. [2]
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Westmont College, a private interdenominational Christian liberal arts college in Santa Barbara, California, USA Westmont Community Unit School District 201 , Westmont, Illinois, USA; school district Westmont High School (disambiguation)
Weston was a community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, near Batavia and Warrenville.It was voted out of existence by its village board in order to provide a site for the National Accelerator Laboratory (), which was selected by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on December 16, 1966.