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The Naperville Park District will put a $120 million bond sale question on the March 2026 election ballot, scaled back from the initial $135 million referendum that had been discussed.

Naperville Park Board members voted unanimously Thursday night to pursue the modified referendum after evaluating resident feedback, including the responses to a survey mailed to more than 53,000 households and texted to more than 60,000 people in the fall that received more than 8,000 responses.

“To have over 8,000 responses to the survey, a 15% response rate for a community of our size, that’s a tremendous response,” Executive Director Brad Wilson said.

Results showed that 53% of respondents were likely to vote “yes” on the measure, 42% were likely to vote

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