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Wheaton| Town and administrative headquarters of Du Page County, northeast Illinois; population (1990) 51,500. It is located 40 km/25 mi west of Chicago, and is a suburban residential community in a region producing corn, oats, and barley. The town has some light manufacturing, and there are also nurseries. It is best known as a centre of religious education: The National Association of Evangelicals and the Theosophical Society of America have their headquarters in Wheaton, along with many other smaller religious groups. The town is also home to Wheaton College, founded as a Wesleyan Methodist institution (1860). |
| Settled c. 1837, Wheaton grew with the arrival of the railway in 1849. The Robert R McCormick Museum and Gardens and Billy Graham Center Museum are in the town. The periodical, Christianity Today, is published in Wheaton. |
Wheaton| Town in Montgomery County, central Maryland; population (1990), combined with neighbouring Glenmont, 53,700. It is located 16 km/10 mi north of Washington, DC. Wheaton is an affluent, largely residential community. |
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