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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.
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] 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 ...
312 Chicago - City (The Loop and central neighborhoods, e.g. the Near North Side) 773 Chicago - City (Everywhere else within the city limits, excluding central area) 872 Chicago - City (overlay for 312 & 773, effective November 7, 2009) 847/224 (North and Northwest Suburbs) 630/331 (Outer Western Suburbs) 708 (South and Near West Suburbs)
The City of Chicago annexed the land for the airport, so that the city controls both airports serving a large area. During the second half of the 20th century, it was the world's busiest airport. The approach of Cook County and Chicago to air travel has been the same as the approach to canal, railroad and highway transportation, to serve as a ...
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 ...
Simmons, a former alderwoman in Evanston, which has a 16% Black population and is located about 12 miles north of Chicago, has been a pioneer in bringing reparations to one of the Black ...
The fight over Chicago’s new ward map entered a chaotic new phase Tuesday, as a deadline loomed for aldermen to agree on ward boundaries they design themselves and thereby avoid potentially ...
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 ...