Evanston, Illinois Evanston, Illinois Evanston (/ v n st n/) is a town/city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 12 miles (19 km) north of downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north.
The boundaries of the town/city of Evanston are coterminous with those of the former Evanston Township, which was dissolved in 2014 by voters with its functions being combined by the town/city of Evanston. Prior to the 1830s, the region now occupied by Evanston was mainly uninhabited, consisting largely of wetlands and swampy forest.
In 1854, the framers of Northwestern submitted to the county judge their plans for a town/city to be titled Evanston after John Evans, one of their leaders.
In 1857, the request was granted. The township of Evanston was split off from Ridgeville Township; at approximately the same time, that portion of Ridgeville south of Devon Avenue was organized as Lake View Township. The nine founders, including John Evans, Orrington Lunt, and Andrew Brown, hoped their college would attain high standards of intellectual excellence.
Evanston was formally incorporated as a town on December 29, 1863, but declined in 1869 to turn into a town/city despite the Illinois council passing a bill for that purpose.
Evanston period after the Civil War with the annexation of the village of North Evanston.
Finally, in early 1892, following the annexation of the village of South Evanston, voters propel to organize as a city. The 1892 boundaries are largely those that exist today.
In 1939, Evanston hosted the first NCAA basketball championship final at Northwestern University's Patten Gymnasium. In August 1954, Evanston hosted the second assembly of the World Council of Churches, still the only WCC assembly to have been held in the United States.
Evanston first received power in April 1893.
Today, the town/city is home to Northwestern University, Music Institute of Chicago, and other educational establishments, as well as command posts of Alpha Phi International women's fraternity, Rotary International, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, the National Lekotek Center, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Evanston is the place of birth of Tinkertoys, and Evanston, along with Ithaca, New York, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and Plainfield, Illinois, also lays claim to having originated the ice cream sundae. Evanston was the home of the Clayton Mark and Company, which for many years supplied the most jobs. Evanston was a dry improve from 1858 until 1972, when the City Council voted to allow restaurants and hotels to serve liquor on their premises.
According to the 2010 census, Evanston has a total region of 7.802 square miles (20.21 km2), of which 7.78 square miles (20.15 km2) (or 99.72%) is territory and 0.022 square miles (0.06 km2) (or 0.28%) is water. The 2010 census showed that Evanston is ethnically different with the following breakdown in population: 65.6% White, 18.1% Black or African American, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.6% Asian, 0.02% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 3.6% some other race, and 3.8% from two or more competitions.
12.3% of Evanston's 9,259 businesses are Black owned. Evanston has a council-manager fitness of government and is divided into nine wards, each of which is represented by an Alderman, or member of the Evanston City Council.
Evanston was heavily Republican in voter identification from the time of the Civil War up to the 1960s.
Nixon carried Evanston in the 1968 presidential election. The town/city began trending Democratic in the 1960s, though it did not elect a Democratic mayor until 1993.
In the 2012 presidential election, Democratic incumbent Barack Obama won 85% of Evanston's vote, compared to 13% for Republican challenger Mitt Romney. In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton won 87% of the vote in Evanston, while Republican and nationwide winner Donald Trump received only 7%. Evanston's turnout for presidential elections has grown steadily since 2004, with 80% of registered voters voting in the 2016 general election. Early after its founding, because of its strong Methodist influence, and its attempt to impose moral rigor, Evanston was called "Heavenston". In the early 20th century Evanston was called "The City of Churches". The easterly border of the adjoining village of Skokie that falls inside Evanston township schools and 60203 zip code is called "Skevanston", a portmanteau of both names.
Most of Evanston (and a small part of the village of Skokie) is inside the boundaries of Evanston Township High School District 202.
The school precinct has a single high school, Evanston Township High School, with an enrollment of just over 3,500, covering grades 9 through 12.
Evanston-Skokie Community Consolidated School District 65, covering all of Evanston and a small part of Skokie, provides major education from pre-kindergarten through undertaking 8.
The precinct has ten elementary schools (kindergarten through fifth grade), three middle schools (grades 6 through 8), two magnet schools (K through 8), two special schools or centers, and an early childhood school.
Private schools positioned in Evanston, Illinois include: Evanston Public Library - chief branch The Evanston Public Library was established in 1873, and has three chapters as of 2013. Evanston's expansion occurred largely because of its accessibility from Chicago by rail.
C&M trains began stopping in Evanston in 1855. Evanston later experienced rapid expansion as one of the first streetcar suburbs.
The North Shore Line which gave the region its nickname started at Church Street in Evanston and continued up to Waukegan.
The CTA's Purple Line, part of the Chicago 'L' system, runs through Evanston.
Metra's Union Pacific/North Line also serves Evanston, with stations at Main Street, Davis Street and Central Street, the first two being adjoining to Purple Line stations.
The biggest automobile routes from Chicago to Evanston include Lake Shore Drive, the Edens Expressway (I-94), and Mc - Cormick Boulevard, although the first two of those do not extend to Evanston itself and require driving through Rogers Park (via Sheridan Road or Ridge Avenue) and Skokie, in the order given.
5 City of Evanston 918 8 Evanston Township High School District 202 520 Once the home of one of the first Marshall Field's and Sears stores in suburbia, Evanston remains an meaningful shopping destination for the north suburbs and North Side of Chicago, with various commercial centers throughout the city.
Downtown - centered around the Davis Street Metra and "L" stops, Evanston's downtown adjoins Northwestern University.
Central Street - actually a several shopping districts linked along the northernmost of the city's principal east-west arteries, with the most active clustered around the Central Street Metra station and characterized by specialty shops and restaurants in a walkable surrounding with an eclectic, vintage "small-town feel" firmly protected by the community. Since 1917, the neighborhood has been home to the South Branch of the Evanston Public Library.
Branch was opened down the street in January 2013, replacing an interim volunteer library that had been directed in that locale by the Evanston Public Library Friends. The neighborhood is also home to the Evanston Arts Depot. Howard Street - many small shops line the city's border with Chicago; at the west end of the avenue, near the border with Skokie, Howard Center, a small grow shopping mall, was assembled in the 1990s after some controversy. Chicago Avenue - not a separate shopping precinct per se, this extension of what is called Clark Street in Chicago runs alongside to the rail lines and is the principal north-south artery in Evanston from Howard Street north to its end at Northwestern University.
First Bank & Trust, an autonomous improve and commercial financial institution, is headquartered in Evanston with four locations around the city.
Magnetar Capital, a hedge fund based in Evanston, was ranked #4 among hedge funds around the world by Institutional Investor/Alpha periodical in 2015. Two hospitals are positioned inside Evanston's town/city limits: Evanston Hospital, part of North - Shore University Health - System "The Arch", the chief entrance to the Evanston ground of Northwestern University A perennial debate in Evanston is the copy of Northwestern University's status as a tax-exempt institution.
However, its backers, like former Evanston mayor and Northwestern alumna Lorraine H.
Morton, contend that the benefits of having an elite research institution justify Northwestern's tax status. These supporters highlight the fact that Northwestern University is the biggest employer in Evanston, and that its students and faculty constitute a large consumer base for Evanston businesses.
In September 2009, Northwestern purchased a fire truck for the town/city of Evanston at a cost of $550,000.
Northwestern President Morton Schapiro stated, "We are pleased to fund the purchase of this new fire engine, which was the top before ity of the City in our discussions with how we might assist the City financially." Main article: List of citizens from Evanston, Illinois Evanston's range of housing and commercial districts, combined with easy access to Chicago, make it a prominent filming location.
Evanston as of December 2008 is listed as a recording locale for 65 different films, prominently those of John Hughes. Much of the 1984 film Sixteen Candles was filmed in and around Evanston, as was the 1993 film Dennis the Menace, and the 1997 film Home Alone 3. A number of scenes from the 1986 Garry Marshall film Nothing in Common were filmed on the Northwestern University ground and Evanston's lakeshore. Although not filmed there, the 2004 film Mean Girls is set in the Evanston suburbs, and makes a several references to the area.
In The Princess Bride, as stated to IMDB, the screenplay says that the boy and his grandfather live in Evanston. This was also stated by Mandy Patinkin in a behind-the-scenes interview. The story's author, William Goldman, was born in Chicago and interval up in Highland Park just a couple of miles away from Evanston.
Evanston has attained recognition and reputation for accomplishments related to sustainability, including those by government, people, and establishments.
In October 2006, the town/city voted to sign the United States Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, and a number of citizen task forces convened to precarious a plan to reduce the city's carbon footprint. The Evanston Climate Action Plan ("ECAP"), accepted by the City Council in November 2008, suggested over 200 strategies to make Evanston more sustainable, principally by reducing carbon emissions associated with transportation, buildings, energy sources, waste, and food production. In June 2011, the United States Conference of Mayors awarded Evanston first place in the small town/city category of the Mayors' Climate Protection Awards, based largely on the city's use of the ECAP, which the town/city asserts has reduced emissions by 24,000 metric tons per year. On September 15, 2011, Wal-Mart presented Mayor Tisdahl with a $15,000 award in recognition of the honor, which the mayor donated to Citizens' Greener Evanston. An Evanston Strategic Plan passed on March 27, 2006, aspired to problematic the most livable town/city in America and to promote the highest character of life for all residents. One goal is to problematic and maintain functionally appropriate, sustainable, accessible high character transit framework and facilities.
Evanston has an surrounding board and an office of sustainability. The single biggest carbon-reducing strategy identified in the ECAP, the evolution of an offshore wind farm in Lake Michigan, attained widespread attention. In April 2010, Evanston's City Council voted to authorize issuing a Request for Information (RFI) so that interested parties could furnish knowledge on developing a wind energy facility 4 miles (6 km) off the coast of Lake Michigan. Following the receipt of responses, the Mayor appointed a committee to evaluate the knowledge received.
In the meantime, Evanston legislators introduced legislation, signed into law in summer 2011, creating a state offshore wind council to propose how to regulate possible evolution of such projects. Northwestern University's Ford Engineering Design Center is a LEED Silver certified building, and the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation has assembled a LEED Platinum certified Jewish church. Not-for-profit groups active on surroundingal issues include Citizens' Greener Evanston, an outgrowth of the hundreds of people who participated in the creation of the Climate Action Plan, the Business Alliance for a Sustainable Evanston, a coalition of small-town businesses committed to advancing surroundingal sustainability and economic progress in Evanston's commercial sector, The Talking Farm, an organization devoted to sustainable urban farming, and the Evanston Environmental Association, who organizes an annual "Green Living Festival" and other affairs.
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