Naperville

There are many scholarships for Naperville students. If you are searching for scholarships for a particular high school located in Naperville, please select the appropriate school from the list below. The scholarship database contains scholarships for Naperville students in the following categories:

Naperville High School Scholarships
Naperville College Scholarships
Naperville University Scholarships

For School Specific Scholarships, select one of the schools below:

Naperville (population 141,853) is a city within the state of Illinois. It is situated in both Will and Dupage Counties, with approximately two thirds of Napervillians living in the county of DuPage, and another third in Will County. Naperville is the fifth biggest city within the state of Illinois. Plenty of corporate headquarters are located in the city of Naperville, making it one of the richest cities within the Midwest. It was named by Money Magazine as the 2nd best place to reside in the US.

The community was named for Captain Joseph Naper after it was inhabited in the year 1831. It officially became a city in the year 1890. Naperville was a quiet, farming community until the 1960s when the population started to grow. The city of Naperville benefited from the jobs and accumulation of corporate wealth happening in the metropolitan area of Chicago. During the 1990s, Naperville was one of the ten fastest growing cities in the United States.

The positive economic fortunes of Naperville are due to its location in the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor. The population explosion towards the end of the 20th century was due to jobs provided by such businesses as Alcatel-Lucent, Nalco, Nicor and Edward Hospital. The city of Naperville is home to the head offices of Tellabs, OfficeMax and Dukane Precast, and ConAgra's Gocery's division branch office. Kraft Foods runs its Triscuit products plant there. A main manufacturing plant of concrete is located in the city of Naperville. Amoco and Argonne National Laboratory, a research facility owned by Fermilab are situated within the area. The city of Naperville has numerous automobile dealerships. The city of Naperville boasts a large, $1.5 million, public-private car test track.

The Naperville region has numerous great shopping places, like for instance downtown Naperville, Springbrook Prairie Pavilion, Freedom Commons and the Route 59 and Ogden Avenue corridors.

The city of Naperville boasts a full calendar of events, like for example the famous Ribfest, which is an annual outdoor food fest which kicks off prior to Independence Day. Held Labor Day weekend is the Last Fling carnival. Summer concerts each and every week are held in the city's Central Park. Naperville also hosts traditional festivities on Memorial Day, Labor Day and St. Patrick's Day.