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NorthShore was founded as Evanston Hospital in 1891 during an outbreak of typhoid fever. [1] In the early 1900s Evanston Hospital expanded and became a teaching hospital. [1] Louis W. Sauer developed a vaccine for whooping cough (pertussis) at Evanston Hospital in the 1920s. [1]
The North Shore Channel is a 7.7 mile long canal built between 1907 and 1910 to increase the flow of North Branch of the Chicago River so that it would empty into the South Branch and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. [1] Its water is generally taken from Lake Michigan to flow into the canal at Wilmette Harbor.
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 ...
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. Evanston had a population of 78,110 as of 2020. [6]
Lourdes High School, Chicago; Luther High School North, Chicago (1909-2017) Luther High School South, Chicago (closed 2014) Maine North High School, Des Plaines (1970–1981) Maria High School (Chicago, Illinois) (1911–2013) McKinley High School (Chicago) (1875–1954) Mendel Catholic High School, Chicago (1951–1988)
Alden Township is located in McHenry County, Illinois. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,275 and it contained 620 housing units. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,275 and it contained 620 housing units.
In 2003, NCB started its Lifetime of Music program, [13] inviting dozens of Chicago-area high school musicians to perform with the band at its Winter subscription concert in February. NCB also awards the John P. Paynter Scholarship , [ 13 ] which provides financial assistance toward an outstanding high school musician's college education and ...
Music Institute of Chicago (formerly the Music Center of the North Shore) is a community music school in Illinois with campuses in Chicago, Downers Grove, Evanston, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire,and Winnetka. Founded in 1931, MIC has expanded over the years to its current status as an institution serving more than two thousand students at six campuses.