NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE
Located at Naperville, Du Page County, and founded in 1865 under the auspices of the Evangelical Association.
It maintains business, preparatory and collegiate departments, besides a theological school. In 1898 it had a faculty of nineteen professors and assistants, with some 360 students, less than one-third of the latter being females, though both sexes are admitted to the college on an equal footing.
The institution owns property to the value of $207,000, including and endowment of $85,000.