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Evanston [a] is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan.A suburb of Chicago, Evanston is 12 miles (19 km) north of Downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, Wilmette to the north, and Lake Michigan to the east.
Roughly bounded by Northwestern University, Lake Michigan, Calvary Cemetery, and Chicago Ave. 42°02′15″N 87°40′30″W / 42.0375°N 87.675°W / 42.0375; -87.675 ( Evanston Lakeshore Historic
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 ...
The 9th congressional district of Illinois covers parts of Cook, Lake, and McHenry counties as of the 2021 redistricting which followed the 2020 census.It includes all or parts of Chicago, Evanston, Glenview, Skokie, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Prospect Heights, Wilmette, Buffalo Grove, Hawthorn Woods, Wauconda, Island Lake, Long Grove, Lake Barrington, Algonquin Township, Cary, Crystal ...
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 ...
Enough Chicago aldermen are in agreement on a new map of the city’s 50 wards that they will avoid a ballot referendum next month that would have let voters choose from between competing maps ...
The contentious battle over the new Chicago ward maps appears over, with a compromise deal in place to avoid a costly referendum. But backroom deals may have left the Latino Caucus fractured.
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]