Kate's Brief History

  1966 was also the year our Park District was born. Park districts weren’t a novel idea — Chicago launched it’s first incarnations in...

1966 was a remarkable time — even in our little town. At the beginning of a development explosion,   Naperville’s population grew 75% d...

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...

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...

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...