Kate's Brief History
Tidbits of history, briefly.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Naperville 50 Years Ago -- The Barn
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1966 was a remarkable time — even in our little town. At the beginning of a development explosion, Naperville’s population grew 75% d...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Old Naperville Gossip about Colorado Beer Baron
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If you were a Chicagoan of drinking age in 1980, you remember how chic it was to drink Coors before it was legally distributed east o...
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...
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