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Naperville

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Naperville

City in Du Page and Will counties, northeastern Illinois; population (1990) 85,400. Naperville is situated on the West Branch of the Du Page River, 48 km/30 mi west of Chicago.

Naperville is mainly a residential suburb, but also manufactures furniture, electronic switching equipment, plastic products, building blocks, and ice cream. Recent large-scale commercial and industrial development, particularly by high-tech concerns, has clustered along Interstate 88, the ‘Illinois Research and Development Corridor’, on the northern outskirts of the city. The settlement came into being when Captain John Naper built a sawmill on the site in the early 1830s. Farming and lumbering gave way to industry with the arrival of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1864. North Central College (founded 1861) and its affiliate Evangelical Theological Seminary are sited here.



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