East Highlands

“The rare Naperville address where walking distance to downtown is the defining feature, not the marketing one.”

East Highlands occupies a uniquely walkable corner of Naperville, set between Washington Street and Naper Boulevard immediately east of the downtown core. The streetscape is residential and notably hilly for the western suburbs, with mature oak canopy along curvilinear streets that connect to Veterans Park, the Riverwalk, and the downtown grid. The setting feels removed despite its proximity, the result of a residential plat designed in deliberate contrast to the city around it.

The neighborhood was platted in 1954 by Harold Moser as one of the city's earlier postwar planned subdivisions, with large lots and winding streets that broke from the rectangular grids of older Naperville. The original mid-century ranches and split-levels still anchor a share of the streets, but the dominant pattern over the past two decades has been steady and intentional. Lots have traded as land value, original homes have been removed, and custom estates have been rebuilt in their place, producing a streetscape that reads as architecturally varied rather than uniformly styled.

Downtown Naperville lies within walking distance of the western edge of the neighborhood, with the BNSF Metra station, I-88 access at Naper Boulevard, and the full length of the Riverwalk all nearby. For buyers who want the proximity of an in-town address with the privacy of a residential street, East Highlands offers a combination that few Naperville neighborhoods can match.