Kate's Brief History

Springbrook Prairie sprawls between 75th and 87th Streets, enclosing both Book and Naperville-Plainfield Roads. It’s no surprise to learn th...

The Gold Rush began in 1848 and nearly 300,000 people traveled to California to cash in on their share. Naperville folks were not i...

Happy Birthday, Naperville! In 1831, Joseph Naper, along with his brother John, his sister Amy and their families and friends, settled d...

This past month North Central College alums celebrated their Homecoming in Naperville, held later in the fall than usual in order to coinc...

Harry Robinson designed several other houses in Naperville in addition to the Truitt House. After a childhood spent in Mattoon, Illinois, ...

Like Kate, you may want to stand in an actual northern Illinois prairie this week and imagine that you are one of Naper's settlers from ...