| Carol Stream
is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
Incorporated on January 5, 1959, and named after the
developer's daughter, Carol Stream had a population
of 69,476 as of the 2008 US census.
A common misconception is that
the municipality of Carol Stream was named for a local
minor waterway (There are several in the community.
The largest is Klein Creek). In fact, Carol Stream may
be the only community in America which took its name
from the first and last names of a living person: Carol
Stream, the daughter of its founder Jay Stream.
Jay Stream, a military veteran
who had previously sold insurance and ready-mix concrete,
was in the mid-1950s heading Durable Construction Company.
He became frustrated with red tape while negotiating
a planned 350-400 home subdivision in nearby Naperville,
Illinois. A Naperville clerk reportedly advised Stream
to "build your own town", and in 1957, Stream
began buying unincorporated farmland outside Wheaton.
As construction progressed, Stream's daughter Carol,
then 14, was nearly killed in an automobile accident
in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, not far from where the
Stream's summer home was located in Twin Lakes.
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