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Plaza del Lago is a shopping center at 1515 Sheridan Road in Wilmette, Illinois, United States, which opened in 1928 as Spanish Court.It has been reported as the second-oldest shopping center in the United States designed for automobile use, [3] [4] [5] and the first such center in the state of Illinois.
Wilmette had a population of 28,170 at the 2020 census. [3] The first and only BaháΚΌí House of Worship in North America is located in Wilmette. Wilmette is also home to Central Elementary School and Romona Elementary School, both recent recipients of the National Blue Ribbon award bestowed by the U.S. Department of Education. [4]
Early bird dinner is a dinner served earlier than traditional dinner hours, particularly at a restaurant.Many establishments offer a seating prior to their main dinner seating with a reduced price menu, often more limited in selection than the standard dinner menu.
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.
The Chicago and Northwestern Depot was moved one block north from the passenger station and became Wilmette's freight depot. The depot remained a freight depot until 1946, when Wilmette's freight service was transferred to Evanston; the station was then boarded up, and its platform was removed. On June 13, 1974, the station was moved away from ...
As of 2007, there are still a few restaurants and diners that offer blue-plate specials under that name, sometimes on blue plates, but it is a vanishing tradition. A collection of 1930s prose gives this definition: "A Blue Plate Special is a low-priced daily diner special — a main course with all the fixins , a daily combo, a square for two ...
It is listed on the Wilmette Register of Historic Properties and on the National Register of Historic Places. [ citation needed ] . Although St. Joseph's Mission (the "Log Cabin Mission") was founded in 1842, it wasn't recognized as a parish until 1845 by Chicago's first Catholic bishop, William Quarter to serve German Catholic immigrants from ...
A In 1897 the Woman's Club of Wilmette began renting space at a grocery store and circulating books, with its club members acting as librarians. [1] At one point the village housed a small collection at Royal Arcanum Hall. [2] In 1900, by a vote of 62 to 52, Wilmette taxpayers approved a referendum which would establish a free public library. [1]