Kate's Brief History

The Lantern Bar and Grill in downtown Naperville is also celebrating a 50th anniversary this year. Originally it was known as the R...

With Naperville’s population booming in the 1960’s, it soon became obvious that the current schools would not be sufficient for educati...

There were fewer Naperville citizens in 1966 and a much smaller police force of about a dozen, but a very familiar face started his c...

  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...