wheaton

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Whea⋅ton

[hweet-n, weet-n]

–noun

1.	a town in central Maryland. 48,598.

2.	a city in NE Illinois, W of Chicago. 43,043.

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Whea·ton (hwēt'n, wēt'n)

A city of northeast Illinois west of Chicago. Settled in the 1830s, it is mainly residential. Population: 54,600.
An unincorporated community of central Maryland, a residential suburb of Washington, D.C. Population: 57,600.

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Wheaton

city, seat (1867) of DuPage county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, located about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown. The first settlers (1837) were Erastus Gary and brothers Warren and Jesse Wheaton, all of whom came from New England. The site was laid out in 1853 after the arrival (1849) of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, which stimulated growth.

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