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Mark S. Inch (born 1960), retired US Army Major General and ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (2017–2018); graduate of Wheaton College; son of Morris Inch, Wheaton Professor [4] Robert James Miller (1983–2008), US Army Special Forces staff sergeant; Medal of Honor recipient; graduate of Wheaton North High School [5]
Wheaton is also the North American headquarters for the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which moved into its new home in June 1946. [ 56 ] On March 18, 2002, St. Michael Catholic Church in downtown Wheaton was destroyed by arson by a Wheaton resident and parishioner, Adam Palinski, now serving 39 years in prison. [ 57 ]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Meanwhile, the present-day Rez building in Wheaton began as a 70,000-square-foot warehouse. Working to a design by Skiffington Architects, Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering created a truss using existing roof framing and two existing interior columns to expand the column-free sanctuary space in the warehouse from the pre-existing 38 ...
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.
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is a not-for-profit, Catholic health care system and housing organization sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters, Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, of Wheaton, Illinois. The system became a subsidiary of Ascension Health when the two merged in 2015.
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
Edward Breathitte Sellers, 1866 – first Wheaton College graduate of color; Timothy Stoen, 1960 – member of Peoples Temple; Jonestown defector [11] Dave Theurer – game designer; created Missile Command and Tempest for Atari; R. Timothy Ziemer – Navy admiral and global health expert