Combined with the historic buildings, including the Wheaton Depot and Museum and the Wheaton Courthouse a lovely backdrop is created for an afternoon of casual strolling or shopping.ĭowntown Wheaton is not only beautiful, but it's also a place for an experience. Wheaton is a member of the Tree City USA Foundation, committed to greening their community.
The city has enacted the multi-year Downtown Streetscape Plan to revitalize the area, creating pedestrian-friendly walkways, new lighting and, as an eco-friendly community, replanting trees and freshening the landscape. Historic Downtown Wheaton is the go-to destination for locals and visitors alike. Warren and Jesse Wheaton would not have believed their eyes. The once open and bare land is now filled with gorgeous parks and playgrounds, a bustling downtown with shops and restaurants, beautiful historic buildings and approximately 54,000 residents. Little did they know, it was the first step toward the development of this vibrant twenty-first-century city. What would the Wheaton, Illinois city founders, Warren, and Jesse Wheaton, have thought if they could have looked into the future? In the 1800s, they made a simple offer of free, undeveloped land to a railroad company to build a depot in the area.
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