"A group of aviation enthu­siasts bought farmland from Colonel E. J. Baker on the south side of Route 64. They called themselves Air Associates; they had built their first hangar by 1929. George G. Ball purchased the airport in 1939. With the advent of World War II, the flying field became im­portant to the Federal Government, which paid for the first paved runways and lent a large sum of money to have the Howard Aircraft Company plant built. After the war that build­ing was sold; it became the Owens-Illinois Glass Works' Plastic Division in 1947, while the airfield became DuPage Airport...
...The year 1974 was also when the DuPage Airport was purchased and placed under the management of a Fox Valley Community Airport Authority. The referendum passed by a vote of 4,217 to 1,737 with the communities of Batavia, Geneva, St Charles, Wayne and West Chicago participating." - excerpted from (Wayne section) DuPage Roots