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Wheaton is a suburban city about 25 miles west of Chicago and the county seat of DuPage County.

Wheaton traces its founding to 1837-38, when brothers Jesse and Warren Wheaton and Erastus Gary claimed hundreds of acres of prairie west of Chicago; railroad workers posted a sign reading 'Wheaton Depot,' giving the town its name.

Wheaton was incorporated as a village on February 24, 1859, with Warren Wheaton as its first president, and as a city on April 24, 1890.

Wheaton won the DuPage County seat from Naperville in a hard-fought 1867 referendum decided by just 51 votes, 1,686 to 1,635, and its first courthouse was dedicated on July 4, 1868.

Wheaton's population was 53,970 at the 2020 census, making it one of the most populous municipalities in Illinois.

Wheaton has about 19,600 households with an average household size of about 2.5 people, according to Census-based regional planning data.

Wheaton College began in 1853 as Illinois Institute, founded by abolitionist Wesleyan Methodists, and was renamed for Warren Wheaton in 1860 under its first president, abolitionist Jonathan Blanchard; its motto is 'For Christ and His Kingdom.'

The Wheaton College campus is home to the Billy Graham Center, opened in 1980, which houses a museum and archives of the famed evangelist's ministry.

Wheaton is also the national headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America, whose Olcott Estate campus has anchored the society's U.S. work since 1927.

Cantigny Park, the 500-acre estate of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, lies in Wheaton and includes formal gardens and the First Division Museum of the Army's 1st Infantry Division.