Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
“The DuPage Theatre and DuPage Shoppes, nicknamed "The Duper", was an historic movie theater in Lombard, Illinois.”
Wikipedia article DuPage Theatre and DuPage Shoppes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in York Township. History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on York Township - 2,155 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dupage Theatre and Dupage Shoppes in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dupage Theatre and Dupage Shoppes: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmhurst Portable Plant #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Underground No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Dupage City Hwy. Dept. Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Glen Ellyn City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Village of Lombard Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Wheaton City Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lombard, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | $1,500,000 | Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines blown down. A garage door was blown in by the high winds, a roof was partially blown off, some trees fell onto houses. In Villa Park, at least 1,500 trees were either destroyed or heavily damaged and 2,000 structures in Villa Park were damaged. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | $20,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. Businesses on the northwest corner of Main Street and Roosevelt Road lost part of their roof and part of a gutter. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | $3,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down on the east side of Lombard. |
| August 2006 | Lightning | Lombard | $2,000 | Lightning struck a tree, which fell down and also blew out basement windows. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | A photo was shared showing an uprooted tree. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | Photos showed a tree limb 4 to 5 inches in diameter blown down. |
| June 2020 | Flood | Lombard | - | Several roads were closed due to mainly minor flooding in Lombard. A car was reported stalled in high water near Main Street. Rainfall of 1.76 inches was measured in 25 minutes. |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Lombard | - | A tornado with peak winds of 95 mph touched down near Main and Maple Streets, just east of Lilacia Park. The tornado moved northeast uprooting some trees and snapping other trees. More than 200 homes in Lombard suffered some amount of damage, a few suffered significant roof damage. The worst damage occurred near the Lombard Common just south of St. Charles Road. Tree damage continued along the path including part of a large tree blown down near Schafer Elementary School. A one foot diameter tree was blown down onto a house. Another house suffered minor roof and siding damage just north of the Jefferson Middle School and the tornado lifted northeast of the Jefferson Middle School. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | Trees and power lines were blown down near Crescent Blvd and St. Charles Road. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | A 30 foot tall Pine tree was uprooted and blocked a roadway. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | The top of a maple tree was broken off near East Washington Blvd and Main Street. The trunk was estimated at 1 foot diameter. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | A large tree was blown down on a house and siding was blown off another house. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | A three foot diameter tree was blown down onto a car on South Main Street. The car was not significantly damaged and no one in the car was injured. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | A wind gust to 65 mph was measured in Lombard. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | A tree was blown down. |
| August 2007 | Flood | Lombard | - | Three inches of standing water on Interstate 355 at St. Charles Road. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lombard | - | Penny size hail reported at 22nd Street and Highland. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | Trees were blown down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | Numerous large trees were blown down on West Maple Street. One fallen tree punctured the roof of a house. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Lombard | - | Hail ranged from the size of pennies at Illinois Route 64 and Route 53 to golf ball size hail along Main Street. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | A wall was blown down at a construction site. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lombard | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lombard | - | no account filed |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lilacia Park Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2019 | |
 | First Church of Lombard | 0.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Ardmore Avenue Train Station | 2.0 miles | 1980 |
 | Lake Ellyn Park | 2.1 miles | 2017 |
 | Alfred A. Schiller House | 2.2 miles | 2008 |
 | Stacy's Tavern | 2.4 miles | 1974 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002047 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| DuPage County | All 50 listed properties in this county. |
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