Wheaton (Illinois)
| Wheaton | |||
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 DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton |
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| Location in Illinois | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1831 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Illinois | ||
| County : | DuPage County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 52 ′ N , 88 ° 6 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
55,416 (status: 2000) 9,572,572 (status: 2010) |
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| Population density : | 1,904.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 29.2 km 2 (approx. 11 mi 2 ) of which 29.1 km 2 (approx. 11 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 231 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 60187, 60189 | ||
| Area code : | +1 630 331 | ||
| FIPS : | 17-81048 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 422152 | ||
| Website : | www.wheaton.il.us | ||
| Mayor : | Michael J. Gresk | ||
Wheaton is a city and administrative seat of DuPage County in the US -amerikanischen State Illinois . In 2000 Wheaton had 55,416 inhabitants and an area of 29.2 km². It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area , around 40 km west of downtown Chicago .
history
The place was founded in 1837. In 1848 a railroad depot was built in Wheaton. In 1857, the place lost the vote whether the county government should be in Wheaton or Naperville . The renewed vote in 1867 was won with a ratio of 1,686 to 1,635. In 1868 the courthouse was completed.
Naperville refused to hand over the county archives. The archive was kept in Chicago, where it was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 .
A bookstore opened in Wheaton in 1873, which later became the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain .
The population grew rapidly from the 1950s to the early 1990s. In 1975 the Wheaton Center was built with 758 apartments; of six buildings, two have 20 floors each.
traffic
The rail network of the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation , which operates around Chicago, includes two train stations in the city of Wheaton. The city is also connected to Chicago by the Union Pacific / West Line railroad .
education
Wheaton is home to the private evangelical Wheaton College with nearly 3,000 students. It was founded in 1860. The college's alumni include Daniel Coats , William Lane Craig , Wes Craven, and Billy Graham .
Culture
The Wheaton Grand Theater , built in 1925, is active in the city. It was renovated by the year 2002 and is since 2005 under monument protection ( National Register of Historic Places ).
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman (1899–1976), politician
- Grote Reber (1911–2002), radio astronomer
- J. Laurie Snell (1925-2011), mathematician
- Nina Schmale (1942–1966), nurse, died in 1966 in Chicago in a robbery .
- Dennis Dugan (born 1946), actor and director
- Shane Acker (* 1971), animation director, screenwriter, film producer, and animator
- Tami Erin (* 1974), actress and model
- Christopher Richard Stringini ("Richie"; * 1986), singer in the boy band US5
- Ryan Dzingel (* 1992), ice hockey player
- Jeffrey Jendryk (born 1995), volleyball player
Personalities related to the city
- Red Grange (1903-1991), football player (raised in Wheaton)
- Gilbert Bilezikian (* 1927), French-American Baptist pastor, author and professor at Wheaton College 1973–1992
- John Belushi (1949–1982), actor, comedian and musician
- Bob Woodward (* 1943), investigative journalist (" Watergate "), grew up in Wheaton
