Kate's Brief History

While the 1920s started cautiously, with the country still recovering from the war and the Spanish flu, the decade would go on to enjoy unpr...

The city’s first telephone lines were installed in the 1880s by the Chicago Telephone Company, which in 1920 changed its name to Illinois Be...

In 1920, North-Western College (now North Central) celebrated its 50th anniversary in Naperville and was making plans to build Pfeiffer Hall...

1920 was the first year that America’s population tipped toward an urban rather than rural majority. DuPage County and the surrounding area ...

In 1920, Naperville was just a small, mainly rural, community with a population of only 3,830. It was so rural, in fact, that City Council m...