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DuPage County Fact Sheet


DuPage County Administration Building


DuPage County Judicial Center

Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

DuPage County Administration Building
421 North County Farm Road
Wheaton, IL 60189
  • Telephone:

County Clerk
Recorder
 

(630) 407-5500
(630) 407-5400
 
DuPage County Judicial Center
505 North County Farm Road
Wheaton, IL 60189
  • Telephone:

Circuit Clerk
 

(630) 407-8700
 
IRAD Depository
Regional History Center
Founders Memorial Library
Room 400
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
  • Telephone: (815) 753-1807

Established:

February 9, 1839 (Laws, 1839, p. 73)
     

Origin of the name of the county:
  Named for a small river named DuPage which flows through the county and is said to have derived its name from a French trapper and trader of that region.
     

Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:
 

1831–1839

Cook
 

1825–1831

Putnam
 

1823–1825

Fulton
 

1821–1823

Pike
 

1819–1821

Clark
 

1816–1819

Crawford
 

1815–1816

Edwards
 

1812–1815

Madison
 

1801–1812

St. Clair
 

1790–1801

Knox, Northwest Territory
     

County Seats:
 

1839–1867

Naperville
 

1867–

Wheaton
     

History of county governing board:
 

1839–1850

County Commissioners’ Court
 

1850–

County Board of Supervisors
     

Township Government
 

Adopted:

November 6, 1849
     

Township Names:
 

Addison

  
 

Bloomingdale

  
 

Downers Grove

  
 

Lisle

Name changed from DuPage (date unknown).
 

Milton

  
 

Naperville

  
 

Wayne

  
 

Winfield

  
 

York

  

 

Township Map

Click on thumbnail to view a map of DuPage County and its civil and congressional townships.
 
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