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Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [2] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
The North Side is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan, north of North Avenue (1600 N.), and east of the Chicago River — plus the area north of Fullerton Avenue going west of the River and north to the Chicago city limits.
At the time of her death, she resided at 1130 North Lake Shore Drive with her husband Frank Hatch Jones. [68] Dwight H. Green (1897–1958), 30th Governor of Illinois (1941–1949). He resided at 1360 North Lake Shore Drive at the time of his death. [69] Robert Halperin (1908–1985), athlete and businessman who founded Lands' End. He resided ...
The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street. The Gold Coast neighborhood grew in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire.
Glencoe (/ ˈ ɡ l ɛ n ˌ k oʊ /) is a lakefront village in northeastern Cook County, Illinois, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,849.Glencoe is part of Chicago's North Shore and one of the wealthiest communities in Illinois.
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. These two books define the North Shore as the older monied villages and towns on the lake just north of Chicago: Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Lake Forest, and Lake Bluff. They do not include any inland suburbs nor do they include Waukegan or Zion. See ...
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.