Wheaton, Illinois

==Arts and culture==
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Wheaton boasts a vibrant downtown with many restaurants, shops and services. The Downtown Wheaton Association hosts many events throughout the year to promote local businesses, including The French Market, The Chili Cookoff, Vintage Rides, Boo-palooza (Downtown Wheaton Trick-or-Treat), A Dickens of a Christmas, Wheaton Wedding Walk and Wheaton's Wine & Cultural Arts Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.downtownwheaton.com/events/ |title=Events |publisher=Downtown Wheaton Association|date=2020 |access-date=19 December 2020}}</ref>

Downtown Wheaton is also home to perhaps one of the narrowest stores in the Chicago area. The Little Popcorn Store on Front Street was formerly an alley between two buildings, and features the exposed brick walls of its neighbors. The store has been around since the 1920s and sells candy for as little as 1¢ apiece, and fresh popcorn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.littlepopcornstore.com|title=The Little Popcorn Store|website=The Little Popcorn Store|language=en|access-date=2017-05-17}}</ref>

Other shopping districts in Wheaton include Danada Square West,<ref>{{cite web |title=Directory |url=https://www.danadasquarewest.com/directory/ |publisher=Danada Square West |access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref> and Danada Square East,<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.danadasquareeast.com/about-us/ |publisher=Danada Square East |access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref> named after [[Dan and Ada Rice]], located on the north side of [[Illinois Route 56]] (Butterfield Road), on the west and east side of Naperville Road. Just east of Danada Square East is Rice Lake Square, another open air shopping center.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://ricelakesquare.com/about-us/ |publisher=Rice Lake Square |access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref> Just north of Danada Square East, along Naperville Road, is Town Square Wheaton, which was built in 1992, and is a mixed-use lifestyle center featuring clothing boutiques and restaurants.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.townsquarewheaton.com/about-us/ |publisher=Town Square Wheaton |access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref> Other shopping areas include the [[Roosevelt Road]]<ref>{{cite web |title=East Roosevelt Road Corridor Area – Comprehensive Plan Update |url=https://www.wheaton.il.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/3638?fileID=5032 |publisher=City of Wheaton, Illinois |access-date=14 December 2021 |date=February 2019}}</ref> and Geneva Road corridors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Main Street Plaza |url=https://www.commercialcafe.com/commercial-property/us/il/wheaton/main-street-plaza/ |publisher=Yardi Systems, Inc. |access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref>

===Fairgrounds===
Wheaton is home to the DuPage County Fairgrounds. Organized in 1954, the DuPage [[Fair|County Fair]] Association hosts the annual DuPage County Fair in late July. The fair annually attracts major entertainers, such as [[Ashlee Simpson]], [[Plain White T's]] (2007), [[Travis Tritt]], [[Jesse McCartney]], [[Jars of Clay]], [[Corbin Bleu]] (2008), [[The Academy Is...]], [[The Original Wailers]] (2009), and [[Danny Gokey]] (2010).

===Theater===
Wheaton is also home to the historic [[Grand Theatre (Wheaton, Illinois)|Grand Theater]], built in 1925. In recent years,{{when|date=January 2018}} the theater and volunteers undertook a restoration to its original state, complete with a lighted dome ceiling dotted with stars, and a newly painted floor. It celebrated its grand reopening on May 11, 2002, and on August 25, 2005, the theater was placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in DuPage County, Illinois|National Register of Historic Places]]. There was a sense of growing pessimism that the theater would ever be restored, due to lack of progress and funds. However, there was cause for hope when on January 23, 2010, when many cast members of the off-Broadway show ''Jersey Boys'' raised approximately $50,000 for restoration.

On July 10, 2010, the Grand Theater Corp. surrendered the deed to the building, to Suburban Bank and Trust Co, due in part to being delinquent on a $800,000 loan, carried by Suburban Bank and Trust Co.

On November 30, 2012, Jim Atten bought the building, intending to reopen it soon.  Since then he has been repairing the property and leading the effort to remove temporary structures within the theater. He has worked closely with an architect and the city staff as the effort progresses.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wheatongrandtheater.com/|title=Wheaton Grand Theater|website=wheatongrandtheater.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304012826/http://wheatongrandtheater.com/|archive-date=2013-03-04|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-05-17}}</ref> According to the ''Daily Herald'' newspaper, it will take an estimated $5 million to get the theater up and running again.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140306/news/140309045/|title=Saving downtown theaters: Wheaton Grand headlines a long list|last=Cilella|first=Jessica|date=2014-03-06|work=Daily Herald|access-date=2017-05-17|language=en-US}}</ref>

===Public library===
[[File:Wheaton Public Library's back enterance.jpg|thumb|A view of Cafe on the Park, located at the back of the Wheaton Public library]]
The Wheaton Public Library is frequently ranked as one of the top ten libraries in the nation compared to other libraries serving similarly sized populations.<ref name="libhistory">{{cite web|title=History of the Library |url=http://www.wheaton.lib.il.us/LI_WPLHist.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003131342/http://www.wheaton.lib.il.us/LI_WPLHist.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2010 |publisher=Wheaton Public Library |access-date=23 May 2011 }}</ref> In 2006, a three-story addition was added, followed by significant renovations which were completed in 2007, to bring the square footage up from 74,000 to 124,000.<ref name="libhistory" /> The annual public library budget in 2018 was $4.084 million.<ref>{{cite web |title=City Budget |url=https://www.wheaton.il.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/4262 |publisher=City of Wheaton |access-date=19 December 2020 |page=454 |date=31 December 2018}}</ref> {{As of|2019}}, the total circulation was 1,013,326, the number of items in the collection was 262,745, and the number of visitors was 525,711.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Report |date=31 December 2019 |url=https://www.wheatonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/pdf/AnnualReport-2019.pdf |publisher=Wheaton Public Library |access-date=19 December 2020}}</ref> The previous public library was converted into the [[DuPage County Historical Museum]], between 1965 and 1967.

In May 2016, the library opened Café on the Park, a small restaurant located just inside the Wheaton Public Library's park-side (west) entrance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cafeontheparkwheaton.com/|title=Cafe on the Park Wheaton – Serious about coffee… and fun!|website=www.cafeontheparkwheaton.com|access-date=2016-05-09}}</ref>
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