Kate's Brief History
Tidbits of history, briefly.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Naperville Goes West
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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...
Friday, July 17, 2015
Curfew Rings in Naperville
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Today’s municipal code makes it “unlawful for a person less than seventeen” to be in public after 12:01am, but curfew certainly isn’t a...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Naperville Weddings in History
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June has long been the traditional month for weddings because the goddess Juno was thought to take especial care of women who married d...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
The Civil War, Camp Douglas and Naperville
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America is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Technically, the war ended with General Robert E. Lee's surrend...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Linking Little Houses on the Prairie
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Earlier this week the Naperville Library hosted a program on Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the Little House on the Prairie books....
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