Local coverage
Project conversations across DuPage County.
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Aurora
Aurora grew up around an island at a bend in the Fox River, where the McCarty brothers built sawmills in 1834 before East and West Aurora...
Local planning notes →Wheaton
Wheaton's growth accelerated after it won the DuPage County seat from Naperville in an 1867 referendum decided by just 51 votes, and more...
Local planning notes →Lisle
Lisle wasn't formally incorporated as a village until June 26, 1956, decades after Joy Morton bought land there in 1909 for his Thornhill...
Local planning notes →Warrenville
Julius Warren claimed his land directly along the DuPage River in 1833, and Warrenville kept that river-adjacent footprint through five...
Local planning notes →Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook's modern housing stock arrived almost entirely in one sustained boom, platted from 1961 to 1965 as the Westbury, Colonial...
Local planning notes →Woodridge
Woodridge was deliberately built on a ridge sloping toward the DuPage River's East Branch starting in 1958, and the village incorporated in...
Local planning notes →Downers Grove
Downers Grove's history stretches back to Pierce Downer's 1832 founding and the 1864 arrival of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy...
Local planning notes →Glen Ellyn
Glen Ellyn's Main Street core took shape after the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad arrived in 1849, and in 1889 residents Thomas E. Hill...
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