Chicago, Millington & Western Railway - 1876-1877 Someone driving along Harlem Avenue on Berwyn’s western border may very likely have to...

Seeming to stand guard at the Millbridge Road bridge over the Des Plaines River between Lyons and Riverside is a mysterious castle-like...

It was business as usual at Naperville’s Kroehler Furniture factory early one April afternoon in 1946 when the customary routine was...

The towns along the Q are located in the state of Illinois and are distributed between three counties: Cook, DuPage, and Kane.   Within...

How is it that an administrative error could bring joy to thousands of suburban residents, year after year, for over a century?   The...

“Village Market is Tomorrow’s Market Today:  And it Never Rains in the New Shopping Center.”  So stated a headline in the July 6, 1952,...

Why is there a cemetery on Downers Grove’s Main Street, right smack in the middle of the commercial district?  The story, oddly enough,...

The 1864 opening of the CB&Q train line between Chicago and Aurora and subsequent establishment of local train service attracted real...

Perhaps no single structure or institution better represented the face of the towns along the Q than Cicero’s Western Electric Hawthorne...

Most motorists whizzing along I-88 east of Aurora flash past the Eola Road exit, likely unaware that the exit is even there.   Where is...

A decade or so after Joseph Naper’s 1831 founding of Naper’s Settlement (soon to be incorporated as Naperville), events thousands of...

Until recently, a motel along Ogden Avenue in Lyons was named Plank Road Inn – it is still there, but renamed.    Scarcely a mile west on...

Along the east side of County Line Road, south of Hinsdale, is the Katharine Legge Memorial Park.  Adorning its entrance are bas relief...

At the end of WWII, the CB&Q railroad management addressed the many challenges it would face after fifteen years of depression and war,...

Why do some communities have straight streets and others have curving streets, and even different kinds of curving streets?  It depends...

Mysterious things were happening in a forested area north of Naperville early in 1942.  Barbed wire fencing was erected around the...

In the wake of Chicago’s city-wide fire in 1871, many parts of the city were declared to be within “fire limits,” namely zones where new...

Hooray for Hollywood.  That song featured in the 1937 movie Hollywood Hotel celebrates Hollywood, California, the glitz and glamor home...

What is the Q?  The British answer would be people standing in line.  Biblical scholars’ answer is that it would be “the lost gospel.”  A...