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The City of Evanston became sister cities with the Dnieprovsky District of the City of Kyiv, Ukraine in 1988, and sister cities with Belize City, Belize in 1992. [citation needed] Evanston has a council-manager system of government and is divided into nine wards, each of which is represented by an Alderman, or member of the Evanston City Council.
Rue Simmons was born and raised in the largely segregated [1] 5th Ward of Evanston, Illinois. From 2017 to 2021, Rue Simmons served as the alderman of the 5th Ward. As alderman, she led the passage of the United States' first government-funded reparations legislation .
By the time Wideman was born in the 1940s, Evanston was the state’s largest Black suburb, and 95% of the city’s Black population lived in the 5th Ward. The concentration of Black residents in ...
Joan W. Barr (née Worthy; later Barr-Smith; November 22, 1939 – March 21, 2015) was an American politician and the first woman elected as mayor of the city of Evanston, Illinois. [1] Barr Smith was elected in 1985 and sworn into her position on April 22, 1985, by Cook County Circuit Judge Michael Toomin. [ 2 ]
As talk of reparations ripples through the federal and local governments nationwide, Evanston, Ill., has become the first city in the U.S. to put money in the hands of Black residents affected by ...
Evanston Township, Cook County — formed as Ridgeville Township in 1850; [21]: 103 boundaries changed and renamed Evanston Township in 1857; [21]: 109 [22] dissolved in May 2017 and functions transferred to City of Evanston [23] [24] Hyde Park Township, Cook County — created in 1861; annexed into Chicago in 1889 [25]
Central Street is the principal east-west artery in the far north of Evanston, Illinois [1] and is a major thoroughfare in other northern and northwest suburbs of Chicago. It is the longest east-west road in the city of Evanston, where it stretches for over two miles (3 km) from the city limits west of Crawford Avenue to its eastern intersection with Sheridan Road near the historic Grosse ...
Mayors of the city of Evanston, Illinois Order Image Name Tenure Notes Cite 1 Oscar Henry Mann: 1892 – March 31, 1895 [1] 2 William Andrew Dyche: March 31, 1895 – April 25, 1899 [2] [3] [4] 3 Thomas Bates: April 25, 1899 – April 23, 1901 [4] [5] 4 James A. Patten: April 23, 1901 – 1903 [6] 5 John Thomas Barker: 1903–1907: 6 Joseph ...