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  1. WHEATON® has a variety of laboratory and primary packaging equipment for cell culture and general laboratory use. Our product line of equipment is used for common, day-to-day purposes such as glassware and closures for different glass containers from vials to flasks.

    • Cantigny Park
    • First Division Museum
    • Downtown Wheaton
    • Dupage County Historical Museum
    • Cosley Zoo
    • French Market
    • Illinois Prairie Path
    • The Morton Arboretum
    • Billy Graham Center Museum
    • Blackwell Forest Preserve

    West of downtown Wheaton, this refined park is the former estate of Chicago Tribune publisher Joseph Medill (1823-1899) and his prominent grandson Robert R. McCormick (1880-1955). Not long after McCormick’s passing, the park opened to the public and remains a multifaceted attraction. You can visit the Robert R. McCormick Museum, at the 35-room mans...

    The other museum at Cantigny Park is devoted to the 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army, in which Robert R. McCormick served as colonel during World War I. The museum, in a building designed by Andrew Rebori, sits in the “Tank Park”, an open space in which you can view impressive tanks and pieces of artillery from WWI to the present day...

    Well worth a stroll, downtown Wheaton is along Main Street, Hale Street and their intersecting arteries. This is a pretty part of town for its turn-of-the-century architecture and sidewalks lined with trees and vintage-style lamps. Something that will grab you is the profusion of thriving independent businesses. Food-wise the selection could not be...

    Charles Sumner Frost (1856-1931), famed for Chicago’s Navy Pier, designed this palatial Richardsonian Romanesque building in downtown Wheaton. Completed in 1891, this was Wheaton’s first public library and is composed of rusticated limestone blocks, with imposing gables on each facade. The DuPage County Historical Museum opened here in 1967 and hol...

    On the site of a historic train station, this zoo is run by the Wheaton Park District and gives visitors the opportunity to native Illinois species and domestic animals. Across 20 exhibits in five acres, Cosley Zoo tries to mimic the animals’ natural habitats, and among the species on show are bobcats, a coyote, white-tailed deer, red foxes, raccoo...

    Something that brings real animation to downtown Wheaton in spring and summer is this ever-popular outdoor market. Setting up on Saturdays (8 am to 2 pm), between April and late November, the French Market offers a choice of fruit and vegetables that changes with the seasons, as well as cheese, baked goods, honey, eggs, herbs, flowers and an entici...

    Mostly on the railbed of the old Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (1902-1959), the Illinois Prairie Path became the nation’s first rail-to-trail conversion when it opened in the early 1970s. This helped inspire a rail-to-trail movement across the country, and at the time of writing the Illinois Prairie Path network added up to more than 60 miles, ...

    Founded close by in Lisle in 1922 by the salt magnate Joy Morton, this much-loved regional attraction is home to some 4,100 types of tree across 1,700 acres. There are 222,000 plants in total at the Morton Arboretum, and you can discover this natural splendor, as well as jaw-dropping outdoor art exhibitions along 16 miles of trails. One informative...

    The Christian evangelist Billy Graham (1918-2018) made an inestimable impact on the culture of the United States, spending six decades on television and serving as spiritual adviser to every president from Truman to Obama. Graham graduated from the evangelical Wheaton College in 1943, and the museum in his honor opened here in 1981. The college’s b...

    Off the west side of Cantigny Park is a sprawling expanse of nature, spreading into neighboring Warrenville. At almost 1,400 acres, the Blackwell Forest Preserve is one of the most popular in the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. On gently undulating terrain there’s oak and hickory forest, wetland, grassland and prairie. This is a habitat ...

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  3. No matter which major (s) you choose, the breadth and depth of a Wheaton education gives you highly marketable skills and a strong foundation in Christian discipleship that will guide you at home, at church, at work, and in the wider world. 90+ majors, minors, concentrations & certificates. 11:1 student-faculty ratio.

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  4. Wheaton Center, from a pedestrian bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. Wheaton has rapidly expanded since the 1950s, although population growth has slowed since the early 1990s, as the city has become increasingly landlocked.

  5. Get deals on Wheaton products like homogenizers, cryogenic supplies, carboys and jerricans, laboratory desiccators | Delivery to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

  6. The Wheaton Park District will be hosting Independence Day festivities on July 3 and July 4. There will be road closures and parking restrictions for these events. The City of Wheaton encourages everyone in the community to take part in the celebration.