Reading Children

Reading Children is a work of art in Naperville Township, DuPage County, Illinois. Reading Children is situated near Naperville Public Library, as well as near the theater building Riverwalk Theatre.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Naperville Public Library and Naper Settlement.

Naperville Public Library

Library

Photo: Johnny Reyes, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Naper Settlement, established in 1969, is a 13-acre outdoor history museum accredited by the American Alliance of Museums that consists of a collection of thirty historical buildings and structures from the Naperville, Illinois area. Naper Settlement is situated 1,200 feet south of Reading Children.

Centennial Beach

Beach

Photo: Supracoriolis, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Centennial Beach is a public aquatic park located at 500 W. Jackson Avenue in Naperville, Illinois. The Beach is within an abandoned, double quarry alongside the DuPage River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Naperville and Warrenville.

Naperville

Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.

Naperville is a bedroom community in the Chicagoland area. In 2008, Money magazine ranked Naperville third on its list of the 100 best places to live in the United States.

Warrenville

Town

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Warrenville is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,195 at the 2024 special census. Warrenville is a far west suburb of Chicago on the DuPage River. Warrenville is situated 3½ miles north of Reading Children.

Lisle

Lisle is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lisle had a population of 24,223. It is a south-western suburb of Chicago in the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor.

Reading Children

Type: Work of art
Artwork type: sculpture
Category: tourism
Location: Naperville Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.77217° or 41° 46′ 20″ north

Longitude

-88.15236° or 88° 9′ 9″ west

Open location code

86HHQRCX+V3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9057732600

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

OpenStreetMap attribute

artwork_type=sculpture

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Riverwalk Theatre and Youth Plaza.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Naperville and Nichols Library Parking Lot.

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