DuPage County’s Heritage Gallery needs more diversity to better reflect the area’s history, some officials say

Becky Simon of Naperville, a member of the League of Women Voters, is calling for major changes to the gallery, which though highly visible hasn’t had an addition or an update since 1991.

A history exhibit that occupies a key first-floor hallway in the DuPage County government administration building in Wheaton is the subject of an effort to update it, including potentially profiling a more diverse set of achievers throughout the county’s history.

Now, Becky Simon of Naperville, a member of the League of Women Voters, is calling for major changes to the Heritage Gallery, which though highly visible hasn’t had an addition or an update since 1991.“It’s the gallery of famous white men only,” Simon told the Tribune. “It’s all white Christian hetero people, and it completely overlooks some of the most amazing stories there have been in DuPage County.

Ultimately, DeSart said she favors an update to the gallery. She noted that the local National Organization for Women chapter wrote a letter to the Wheaton Daily Journal newspaper in March 1989, requesting that the gallery be more inclusive. At present, Landon is the only woman featured in the display.

DeSart acknowledged challenges to her group’s goals, however. She noted that she is an ally of the LGBTQ community, including serving on Naper Pride’s board of directors, and that she favors representation of that community in the exhibit.

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