DuPage County

Chicagoland suburban county

DuPage County is a county in northeastern Illinois, part of the Chicago metropolitan area.

It ranks among the wealthiest and most densely populated counties in the Midwest, known for its affluent suburbs like Naperville and Wheaton: DuPage County voted Republican for decades before shifting Democratic.

The name comes from a French-Canadian trader.

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