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Naperville Township is one of nine townships in DuPage County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 104,765 and it contained 41,338 housing units.

Westridge Court is a large shopping center in Naperville, Illinois that opened in 1990. It features nearly 30 stores, including Buy Buy Baby, Petco, and Bed Bath and Beyond. Prior to the Linens N Things/Savers, Old Navy, and Marshalls, there was a Kmart located on property. Arby's, Chili's, and Portillo's were built in 1991. Carson's Furniture Gallery, Homemakers and Circuit City opened in 1992. Taco Bell opened in 1993. The Kmart closed in October 1998 due to a relocation of the store to the former Venture building at 510 South Route 59 (which closed in 2000 due to failing sales and being part of 72 stores scheduled to close in November). in 2004, Michaels opened across the street from the shopping center on Aurora Avenue. in 2005, Homemakers closed its Naperville Location. in 2006, Cub Foods closed all of its Chicago area locations and in 2007, CompUSA closed its Naperville store. DSW moved to Springbrook Prairie Pavilion in 2008. in 2009, Hollywood Palms Cinema opened while Circuit City and Linens N Things closed all locations after both companies filed for bankruptcy. In 2011, HHGregg opened in the former Circuit City location. That same year, Borders closed all stores and an Old Country Buffett on site closed. In 2012, Gordmans opened in the former Cub Foods Location. In April of that same year, Buy Buy Baby opened in the former CompUSA Location.On January 16, 2013, Turk Furniture opened in the former DSW. Around this time Big Lots moved from Iroquois Center on the other side of Naperville. In 2014, 2nd & Charles opened in the former Borders Location. In 2015, Carson's Furniture Gallery was converted into Art Van Furniture. Savers and Shoe Carnival closed around 2016. In 2017, Gordmans and HHGregg closed as part of bankruptcy. Spirit Halloween opened in the former HHGregg.Funtopia opened in Summer 2018. Turk Furniture closed, and Furniture Resource + Rugs opened.Construction began on the former site of Shoe Carnival, to make way for World Market at the end of 2018. 2nd and Charles closed on January 6. 2019. Marshalls moved to High Grove Plaza in the former Golf Galaxy during the summer of 2019. In 2020, Bed Bath & Beyond moved from Fox Valley Commons into the former the 2nd & Charles location. That same year, it was announced Art Van Furniture would close all of its stores. Edge Fitness announced it would open in the former Gordmans. Old Navy moved to Springbrook Prairie Pavilion around October 2020.

Route 59 station is a Metra station along the BNSF Line on the border of Aurora, Illinois and Naperville, Illinois. The station is located at, and named for, Illinois Route 59, to distinguish itself from Naperville to the east and Aurora to the west. It opened on July 16, 1989. As of 2018, Route 59 is the busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 6,339 weekday boardings.

Thayer J. Hill Middle School is a middle school located on Brookdale Road in Naperville, Illinois, a western Suburb of Chicago, Illinois in DuPage County. Hill Middle School is one of the seven middle schools that Indian Prairie School District 204 manages. May Watts Elementary School, Cowlishaw Elementary School, and Brookdale Elementary School feed into Hill. Hill Middle School, along with Still and Granger Middle Schools, feed into Metea Valley High School, one of the three high schools District #204 manages.

Community Christian Church (CCC) is a Christian multi-site megachurch, with headquarters in Naperville, Illinois. As of December 2016, the church conducts services at 8 different locations in Chicago area, in both the city and the suburbs.The church was founded in 1989 by brothers Dave and Jon Ferguson and four of their friends; as they put it, they wanted to build a church that would "help people find their way back to God." Dave Ferguson is senior pastor.

McDowell Grove Forest Preserve, located in Naperville, state of Illinois, is a 439-acre (178 ha) preserve on the West Branch of the DuPage River. The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County purchased the first tract of land for this preserve from Alexander McDowell in 1930. This original tract consisted of about 62 acres adjoining the West Branch of the DuPage River. McDowell Grove was home to a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp from 1934 to 1943. During that time the camp housed two CCC companies: Co. 2612 from 1934 to 1937 and later Co V-1668, which had previously been located at Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve. Workers from Camp McDowell completed numerous preserve improvements at McDowell, including dredging a lagoon, building several bridges, construction of a shelter and picnic area and building a limestone dam on the West Branch. At any one time, the camp housed about 200 men. The camp had military style barracks for housing of the 3,800 men who lived and worked in the camp during the five-year period.Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army Signal Corps' Sixth Service Command took over the old Civilian Conservation Corps camp and used it as a facility for training students in the use and maintenance of radar technology. These trainees were civilian students who were part of the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training program. Under this program, civilian students received training at colleges in Chicago and received training on actual radar equipment at McDowell Grove. Over the years, local lore has developed about the radar school being a top secret facility, although more recent research has revealed that the activities there may not have been so secret. However, after the closure of the radar school in 1943, the camp was occupied by the Office of Strategic Services as a temporary communications school. This presence does not seem to have been widely known and the OSS may have operated their school under the guise of the continuation of the earlier Radar School. At McDowell, OSS recruits received training in sending and receiving coded messages using field radios. Following the war, the land reverted to the forest preserve district and most of the buildings were sold off. Additional parcels of land were eventually added to the preserve. Visitors to the preserve will find open space, hiking trails, picnic sites, fishing and other recreational opportunities. All of the CCC bridges have been removed over the years, but some of the bridge abutments remain. The dam was removed by the forest preserve district as part of a river restoration, and this removal eliminated the lagoon that was once north of the CCC picnic shelter. This lagoon is now a restored wetland habitat. Paddlers can access the West Branch of the DuPage River near the Fawell Dam at the south end of the preserve. They can reach the put-in and take-out sites via a gravel access road off Raymond Drive. A new access bridge for McDowell Grove was constructed in 2018.

Fox Valley Mall, formerly Westfield Fox Valley and Fox Valley Center, is a shopping mall in Aurora, Illinois. The mall's anchor stores are JCPenney and Macy's. Some larger non-anchor stores include H&M and Forever 21. A Round One Entertainment is located in the former Sears wing. The Westfield Group acquired the shopping center in early 2002, and renamed it Westfield Shoppingtown Fox Valley, dropping the Shoppingtown name in June 2005. Westfield Group sold 80% interest in the mall as of December 2015.

Naperville North High School is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Ogden Avenue and Mill Street in the northern-central part of Naperville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It’s a part of Naperville Community Unit School District 203. Naperville North is fully recognized by the Illinois State Board of Education and is a member of the Illinois Association for College Admission Counseling.

Centennial Beach is a public aquatic park located at 500 W. Jackson Avenue in Naperville, Illinois. The Beach is within an abandoned, double quarry alongside the DuPage River. The facility covers almost 6 acres (24,000 m²) of land with a full two acres (8,000 m²) or 6.2 million gallons of open water from Lake Michigan, all tested, re-circulated and chlorinated on site. Among its features is a sand beach next to the shallow end of the pool which offers a zero-depth entry. At the zero depth area of the pool, there are 2 large water play features which pour water from about 10 feet (3.0 m) up, and water spouts that shoot up water for children to play in and cool off. The shallow end of the pool goes from 0 feet (0 m) to 4 feet (1.2 m), getting deeper as one walks further into the pool. In the 4 feet (1.2 m) area there are 3 lanes for lap swimmers, where Centennial Beach’s swim team, The Mudrats, practice each weekday morning before open swim hours. The shallow end also has a slide that was added in 2008. The shallow end also has an area called the “channel.” This area is right next to the deep end and the diving boards. In the channel there is a pool lift for people who cannot use the ladders to get into the pool, they can be let in on the lift. The deep end of the beach has 2 floating rafts in the middle for swimmers to swim out to. The deep end also has 4 piers on the sides of the deep end for swimmers to sit and relax on without sitting on the walkway. The deep end has an NCAA and USS-approved diving complex, which houses two one-meter springboards and one three-meter board. Centennial beach is open on all non-school days from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Centennial Beach’s open swim hours are 11:00 am – 8:00 pm Monday through Saturday and 11:00 am – 6:00 pm on Sunday. The Beach opens early on Saturdays and Sundays for “Adult Float” which is a time where adults can come in with any sort of floating devices (not allowed during regular open swim time) and swim with them. Adult float is every Saturday and Sunday from 9:00–10:55 am. Every Saturday morning at 7:00 am the Centennial Beach lifeguards train and do drills for 2 hours before the pool opens. In the event of inclement weather, poor conditions, low attendance, or insufficient staffing the manager may close the beach or certain sections of the beach. In mid-August the beach begins to close earlier than usual due to early darkness. Centennial Beach receives about 2,500 visitors on an average warm summer day. Over the course of a year the beach receives about 155,000. The beach plays host to various athletic events and is known for its nationally competitive lifeguard team.

Moser Tower (often referred to as the Naperville Bell Tower) is a structure built in Naperville, Illinois, United States. It was built in 1999 to commemorate the third millennium and 21st century. It is 160 feet (49 m) tall and contains the Millennium Carillon, a carillon of 72 bells. The carillon structure is said to be one of the four largest in the United States.

The Naperville Park District is an independent, special taxing district, providing parks and recreation to its residents that has been in operation since 1966. The Naperville Park District serves a population of more than 140,000. Its boundaries are mostly coterminous with the incorporated limits of the City of Naperville, Illinois, though there are small deviations, including the northern section of the White Eagle subdivision, which lies within the City of Aurora's boundaries. The Naperville Park District owns and/or operates 139 parks, totaling over 2,500 acres (10 km2). It serves about 60,000 participants each year through more than 900 recreational, arts, and environmental programs and events for all ages. The District is governed by a seven-member Board of Commissioners, elected at-large by Naperville voters. As of the 2007 election, Commissioners were to begin serving four-year terms. Naperville's park district has CAPRA accreditation from the National Recreation and Park Association, which is conferred to only 1% of park districts in the country. The park district won the National Gold Medal, awarded by the National Recreation and Park Association, in 1972. It was a finalist for the medal in 2002.

Naperville ( NAY-pər-vil) is a city within the Chicago Metropolitan Area in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a western suburb of Chicago located 28 miles (45 km) west of the city.Naperville was founded in 1831 by Joseph Naper. The city was established by the banks of the DuPage River, and was originally known as Naper's Settlement. By 1832, over 100 residents lived in Naper's Settlement. In 1839, after DuPage County was split from Cook County, Naperville became the county seat, which it remained until 1868. Beginning in the 1960s, Naperville experienced a significant population increase as a result of Chicago's urban sprawl. As of the 2020 census, its population was 149,540, making it the state's 4th most populous city. Naperville's largest employer is Edward Hospital with 4,500 employees. Naperville is home to Moser Tower and Millennium Carillon, one of the world's four largest carillons. It is also home to an extensive parks and forest preserve network, including Centennial Beach. Naperville has two school districts, 203 and 204. It also has media outlets, like NCTV17. Naperville has a train station served by Amtrak and Metra.