Tollway System at 1958 Opening On November 21, 1958, a new fast highway between Hillside and Aurora opened.   In conjunction with the...

Graue Mill in 2024 When the first European American frontier families established homesteads west of Chicago in the 1830s there were no...

Victorian Homes on Home Avenue Most people associate Berwyn with the ubiquitous brick bungalows.  Why, then, in the blocks straddling the...

Who isn’t familiar with the blue salt containers showing the girl wearing a yellow dress and holding an umbrella with the slogan “when it...

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...