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Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and a suburb of Chicago. Located 28 miles west of Chicago, Naperville was founded in 1831 and developed as the fifth-largest city in Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 141,853, which was estimated to have increased to 147,112 by July 2015.

In a 2010 study assessing cities with populations exceeding 75,000, Naperville was ranked as the wealthiest city in the Midwest and the eleventh wealthiest in the nation. It was ranked among the nation's safest cities by USAToday and Business Insider. Naperville was voted the second-best place to live in the United States by Money magazine in 2006 and it was rated first on the list of best cities for early retirement in 2013 by Kiplinger. In 2015, it was named as one of the most educated large cities in America with populations over 50,000.

Moser Tower and Millennium Carillon
In 1999, Naperville was designated a White House Millennium Community, due to the construction of the Moser Tower and Millennium Carillon. The 158-foot-tall Moser tower is just on north of Aurora Avenue and at the base of Rotary Hill within the Riverwalk Park complex. The tower's design won an award for "Best Custom Solution" from the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI).

The Millennium Carillon is designated as on of the four largest carillons in the world, with 72 bronze bells weighing from 10 pounds to the 6-ton "Captain Joseph Naper Bell". It is one of only four in the world that span six octaves. It was dedicated in an Independence Day event on June 29, 2000, with a reception attended by over 15,000, and a performance by the Naperville Municipal Band and the Naperville Men's Glee Club and Festival Chorus. The Carillon is both manually and also computer-playable, with most performances done by hand, but with half the bells played by a computer-controlled system at set times during the day. At present, the Carillon is operational and tours are available after concerts. Disputes over funding the completion of the tower were debated before the Naperville City Council during the fall of 2005 (and are still not resolved).

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

Naperville Community Unit School District 203, established in 1972 through the merger of elementary and high school districts, serves central and northern Naperville (as well as portions of neighboring Lisle and Bolingbrook). The current District 203 school buildings were constructed between 1928 (Ellsworth) and 2010 (Ann Reid Early Childhood Center). The 203 school district has two high schools: Naperville Central High School and Naperville North High School, 5 junior high schools and 15 elementary schools within Naperville city limits. Additionally, the school district has one junior high and one elementary school in Lisle.

Indian Prairie School District 204 (IPSD) was also formed through merged districts in 1972. Neuqua Valley High School, along with three middle schools and 19 elementary schools from this district, are within Naperville city limits in the southern part. In total, IPSD runs and maintains 4 high schools (Neuqua Valley High School, Indian Plains High School, Metea Valley High School, and Waubonsie Valley High School), 7 junior high schools, 21 elementary schools, 1 preschool, and 1 alternative high school. The district serves western and southwestern Naperville, along with eastern Aurora and parts of Bolingbrook and Plainfield.

Newspapers

 * Daily Herald is a daily newspaper served suburban Chicago. It was started in 1872 and prospered by Hosea Paddock and his posterity since 1889.
 * Naperville Sun is a local newspaper served Naperville, Illinois and published three days a week, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. It was founded in 1935 and now is owned by Chicago Tribune Media Group.
 * Shaw Media includes daily and weekly print and online publications located in Illinois and Iowa.

DuPage Children's Museum
DuPage Children's Museum was founded in 1987 and rebuilt in 2015 due to a flood after it was moved to its location at Naperville. The redesigned museum received 3 awards. DuPage Children's museum celebrated its 30th years birthday on June, 2017. It now has annually 300,000 visitors.

Health systems
Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL, was first established in 1907 as Edward Sanitarium, and became Edward Hospital in 1955. It merged with Elmhurst Hospital in 2013 to create Edward-Elmhurst Health. Edward Hospital is a full-service hospital with 352 private patient room. It was named as a 100 Top Hospital in 2011, 2016, and 2018 by IBM Watson Health in the Large Community Hospitals category.

DuPage Medical Group serves the western suburbs of Chicago with primary and specialty care since 1999. It was formed by merging Glen Ellyn Clinic, Wheaton Medical Clinic, and Mid-America Health Partners. It has more than 70 locations and 17 of them are in Naperville.

There are several Hospitals and Medical Groups near Naperville:

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, IL, belongs to Advocate Health Care. In 2016, It has 326 beds and has been named a Truven 100 Top Hospital for the seventh time.

AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center at Bolingbrook, IL, is a 138-bed acute care hospital serving western and southwestern suburbs since 2008.

Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, IL, offers full medical services to DuPage community since 1964. It now has about 340 beds and more than 900 physicians. It has been named as a 100 Top Hospital by IBM Watson Health in the Large Community Hospitals category for nine times.

Rush Copley Medical Center is located in Aurora, IL. As a member of Rush University, it provides medical services to the greater Fox Valley area.

University of Chicago Medication has two locations at Naperville providing Pediatric and ENT services.

Train service
The first rail link to Chicago dates to 1864, established by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Naperville currently has three tracks belonging to the BNSF Railway that run through the north end of town, with passenger rail service provided by Metra and Amtrak. Amtrak's four daily trains through Naperville are the Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg (both destined for Quincy, Illinois), the California Zephyr (destined for Emeryville, California), and the Southwest Chief (destined for Los Angeles). A third Metra station is planned on the Suburban Transit Access Route ("STAR") at Wolf's Crossing.

Bus service
Pace provides rush hour feeder bus service to the Metra stations, and previously, through 2008, had provided for local midday service. Both services have always been operated under contract; First Student, a national transportation management firm, is the current contract operator. In addition, Pace directly operates bus route 530 from Naperville to Aurora (which serves Aurora's Westfield Fox Valley Mall) and bus route 714 from Naperville to Wheaton (which serves the College of DuPage), both through its Fox Valley division. Pace also directly operates route 888, a rush hour express route named the "Tri-State Flyer," from Homewood and South Holland to corporate employment sites in the western suburbs, including those in the northern part of Naperville; this route is operated by Pace through its South division. Intercity bus service in Naperville consists of a route from Chicago and Naperville to Davenport, Iowa, and points further west, operated by both Burlington Trailways and Greyhound Lines. The Burlington Trailways buses stop at the Naperville Metra and Amtrak station, downtown on Fourth Avenue; the Greyhound Lines buses stop at the Route 59 Metra station.