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Project conversations across DuPage County.
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Aurora
Aurora grew from the McCarty brothers' 1834 sawmill claim on a Fox River island into a manufacturing center along the Chicago, Burlington...
Local planning notes →Wheaton
Wheaton has grown steadily since it won the DuPage County seat from Naperville in an 1867 referendum decided by just 51 votes, leaving the...
Local planning notes →Lisle
Lisle formally incorporated only in 1956, well after Joy Morton established his Thornhill estate in 1909 and the Morton Arboretum in 1922,...
Local planning notes →Warrenville
Warrenville's riverside settlement dates to Julius Warren's 1833 claim, but the town didn't formally incorporate until 1967 after five...
Local planning notes →Bolingbrook
Because nearly all of Bolingbrook's original housing was built between 1961 and 1965 across three subdivisions ahead of its October 1965...
Local planning notes →Woodridge
Woodridge's first subdivision, built from 1958 on a ridge above the DuPage River's East Branch, was largely financed through GI Bill loans,...
Local planning notes →Downers Grove
Downers Grove's roofline history stretches from Pierce Downer's 1832 founding and the 1864 arrival of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy...
Local planning notes →Glen Ellyn
Glen Ellyn's downtown took shape after the 1849 railroad arrival, and the artificial Lake Ellyn, created in 1889, still sits near the...
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