Kate's Brief History

W.H. Wright’s farm looks tidy and prosperous, but who exactly was W.H. Wright?  Naperville’s history features a number of Wrights. One of th...

At sixteen years old, Fred Long emigrated from Stuttgart, Germany in 1853 and was living in Naperville by 1856. There is no record of his pa...

Naperville has named a street, a school, and several other locations “Ellsworth” in honor of two men who were influential in town. Father Le...

Throughout this year, we’ll take a look at some of the homes and businesses featured in the 1874   Atlas Map of DuPage County . First up is ...

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...