History of how Downtown Naperville developed?

[Lookout Kid]

One thing that I stumbled on recently that changed the way I looked at several towns is that there was a huge housing bubble that burst in 1926-27, about two years before the stock market crash that many credit as the start of the Great Depression. So in many older "railroad" suburbs you can identify the edge of 1920's development, and then sort of see where development was picked up again after World War II. I live in one of these areas now in a house built in 1926, near the peak of the bubble. You see architecturally consistent blocks of 1920's houses give way to sporadic 1920's development, where the empty lots were later infilled by 1950's ranch houses. Very few homes were built in the U.S. in the 30's and 40's.