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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Naperville.
From: Bill Hirt <whirt@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:08:38 -0500
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Mike,

As others have noted, Naperville was already a town 30 years before the 
railroad. There was plank road through town that preceded the CB&Q 
(there was a street called Plank Road when I lived there 40 years ago). 
So the orginal town grew up around the river as a power source. As 
Gerald Edgar noted, one can look at the Sanborn maps and see how the 
CB&Q had a spur down paralleling Mill Street to the quarries and just 
southwest of downtown. It was a big deal when the rail served Nabisco 
plant opened on the edge of town around the BN merger.

In the eight years I lived there, the DuPage River never flooded the 
downtown. I don't even remember it ever even flooding the Cock Robin or 
Burger King which were directly next to it along Washington Street. The 
city was only 15,000-20,000 then and there was still a lot of farmland 
and open country to absorb all that rainwater. There was still a Future 
Farmers of America chapter at the high school when I was there. You had 
to watch which commuter train to ride home after a day in Chicago 
because a number of them skipped or never got to Naperville during rush 
hour.

Bill Hirt


On 7/28/2013 5:29 PM, MIKE wrote:
> Perhaps this is the wrong forum since it's more about the town itself but 
> I've noticed how its downtown grew around the DuPage River instead of the 
> tracks like most towns along the CBQ.
>
> Anyone know why?
>
> Probably wasn't a good idea considering how badly DT Naperville flooded the 
> spring but that's a different story.
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