Naperville, Illinois

Naperville is a city located in DuPage County, Illinois and Will County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,358; a special census in 2003 estimated the population at 135,858. Approximately 95,000 Napervillians live in DuPage County, while about 40,000 reside in Will County.

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Naperville Fire and Police Departments

There are eight Fire Department stations within city limits, and a ninth being planned. The central Naperville Police Department station, on Aurora Avenue at River Road, is located next to Fire Station #7 (the same location was also considered for a potential site for Naperville City Hall in the early 1990s, but a location on Naperville's Riverwalk was chosen instead).

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• Fire Station #1 is on Chicago Avenue, east of downtown.
• Fire Station #2 is at the intersection of Bailey Road and Naper Boulevard.
• Fire Station #3 is at the intersection of Washington Street and Diehl Road
• Fire Station #4 is on Brookdale Road.
• Fire Station #5 is at the intersection of 87th Street and Naperville-Plainfield Road
• Fire Station #6 is on 103rd Street.
• Fire Station #7 and the Administrative Offices are on Aurora Avenue
• Fire Station #8 is on Modaff Road, just south of the intersection of Modaff and 75th Street
• Fire Station #9 (planned) will open near the intersection of 5th Avenue and Ogden Avenue (US Route 34).

Naperville Public Libraries

There are three public library locations within city limits. The Public Libraries have been ranked #1 in the United States for six straight years, from 1999-2004, for cities with populations between 100,000 and 249,999.

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• The Nichols Library is located in downtown Naperville, at 200 W. Jefferson Street
• The Naper Boulevard Library is located at 2035 S. Naper Boulevard
• The 95th Street Library is located near the intersection of 95th Street and Cedar Glade Drive

Naperville Public Schools

Two K-12 public school districts serve the city of Naperville (along with a number of private, parochial schools). Within the state of Illinois, school districts are numbered by their county.

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District 203 is the Naperville Community Unit School District, serving central Naperville. District 203 schools within the City of Naperville include two high schools (grades 9-12), Naperville Central and Naperville North, four junior high schools (grades 6-8; despite using 'junior high school' within the names, District 203 uses the Middle School Philosophy, including team teaching, within these schools), Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Madison (a fifth, Kennedy, is actually in neighboring Lisle) and 14 elementary schools (K-5): Beebe, Ellsworth, Elmwood, Highlands, Kingsley, Maplebrook, Meadow Glens, Mill Street, Naper, Prairie, Ranch View, River Woods, Scott and Steeple Run. The current District 203 school buildings were constructed between 1928 (Ellsworth) and 1929 (Naper) on through 1990 (Kingsley).

Related Topics:
Naperville Central - Naperville North - Middle School Philosophy - Lisle

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District 204 is the Indian Prairie School District, serving western Naperville (and the eastern edge of Aurora). District 204 schools within the City of Naperville include one of the district's two high schools, Neuqua Valley (comprised of two buildings, a blue campus for grades 10-12, and a gold building, a former middle school, for grade 9). The other District 204 High School, Waubonsie Valley (also comprised of two buildings, a green campus for grades 10-12, and a gold building, a former middle school, for grade 9), is located in nearby Aurora, but serves a significant number of students residing in the northern half of Naperville. Other District 204 schools within the City of Naperville include four middle schools: Crone, Gregory, Hill and Scullen (grades 6-8) and 14 elementary schools (grades K-5): Brookdale, Clow, Cowlishaw, Fry, Graham, Kendall, Longwood, Owen, Patterson, Spring Brook, Watts, Welch, Wheatland and White Eagle.

Related Topics:
Neuqua Valley - Waubonsie Valley - Aurora

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