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The Naperville City Council is set to formally recognize White Star Families at its Tuesday, Sept. 15 meeting, honoring relatives of veterans and first responders who died by suicide or from invisible wounds of service.
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The 6th Annual Naperville Irish Fest takes over Central Park on Sept. 18-19 with live Celtic music, Irish dancing, hurling demos, whiskey tastings and food vendors organized by West Suburban Irish.
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The Morton Arboretum's Illumination returns for its 14th season starting Nov. 14 with a 400-foot northern lights canopy and a new Pine Whistle Railroad model-train add-on; member tickets go on sale Oct. 1.
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Naperville's annual Public Safety Open House returns Saturday, Sept. 26, with K-9 demos, a simulated DUI arrest, a flashover fire demonstration and more at the Public Safety Campus on Aurora Avenue.
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Will County has confirmed its first human West Nile virus case of 2026, a 51-year-old who is recovering at home, while mosquito batches in Naperville tested positive as recently as Sept. 3.
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Naperville's Commander Dan Shanower Memorial hosts its 25th anniversary remembrance ceremony Friday evening on the Riverwalk, honoring the community's nearly $300,000 fundraising effort, physical artifacts from all three attack sites, and the people who built and sustained the memorial for a quarter-century.
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Theater for Charity stages the Broadway musical "The Prom" at Center Stage Theater in Naperville from Sept. 25 through Oct. 4, with all profits benefiting Youth Outlook, an LGBTQ+ youth services organization.
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DuPage County's $25.8 million Crisis Recovery Center completed more than 2,200 crisis assessments in its first year, diverting 97% of visitors from hospitalization, according to a county announcement timed to 9-8-8 Day and Suicide Prevention Month.
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KidsMatter, the Naperville youth mental health nonprofit rooted in a 1995 Edward Hospital crisis response, celebrates 25 years of free programming that reaches 45,000 young people across DuPage and Will counties.
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Loaves & Fishes Community Services has purchased a 10,000-square-foot building next to its Naperville Market to centralize wraparound services for the roughly 10,000 people it serves each week across four counties.
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DuPage County confirmed its first human West Nile virus case of 2026 on Sept. 1, raising the county's Personal Protection Index to moderate, as Chicago reported the state's first West Nile death this year.
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The Naperville Park District will hold back-to-back ribbon-cutting ceremonies on Tuesday, Sept. 15 for newly renovated playgrounds at Fox Hill Greens and Queensbury Greens, the latest in a district-wide playground overhaul.
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