Kate's Brief History

While progress has replaced many of Naperville’s earliest structures, not only does George Reuss’s business building still stand but so does...

At the time when Holland’s Business Directory was published in 1886, Dr. Hamilton Daniels and his son William operated a drug store on Washi...

Naperville’s North Central College has not always been called North Central nor has it always been in Naperville. The Evangelical Associat...

According to contemporary reports, a wild winter storm greeted the new year as 1920 dawned in Illinois. The President was Woodrow Wilson. ...

On the west side of Main Street is an alley known as Rubin’s Way where the “Parade of the Century” goes by on one side, watched by Nap...

In 1966, North Central College started a  community theatre tradition. Enthusiastic drama students appealed to professor Don Shanower for ...

The Disney song was number two on the charts during 1947, emphasizing the buoyant mood of Naperville’s residents and Americans in gener...

In closing out the 100th anniversary year of the Naperville Chamber of Commerce, let’s have one final review of our counterparts fro...

To understand Naperville’s school system in 1913, the year the Chamber of Commerce was founded, we should really go back even further...

North Central College celebrates its 150th Anniversary in November. Originally founded as Plainfield College by the regional Evangelical Ass...