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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
The city is also divided into 50 wards for the purpose of electing one alderman each to the Chicago City Council. These wards have at times generated identities similar to neighborhoods. Unlike community areas, wards are adjusted decennially to account for population shifts. [13] Another method of neighborhood nomenclature in heavily Catholic ...
Index crimes in the 24th police district fell by about half between 1996 and 2009. [21] According to an e-mail from 49th Ward Alderman Joe Moore, between January 1, 2013, and February 26, 2013, the 24th Police District was the only police district in Chicago in which no one was shot. In that same eight week period, the 24th District reported ...
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 ...
The governor of Illinois has the power to veto proposed congressional district maps, but the General Assembly has the power to override the veto, with the support of 3/5ths of both chambers. In 1971, 1981, and 1991, the General Assembly was unable to come to an agreement, and the map was drawn up by a panel of three federal judges chosen by ...
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Member of the Chicago City Council (2019–present) 23rd Ward Silvana Tabares: 2020 Member of the Chicago City Council (2018–present), Member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2013–2018) 24th Ward Michael Scott: 2016 Member of the Chicago Board of Education (2022–present), Member of the Chicago City Council (2015–2022) 25th Ward