The current Evanston was part of a large area called the Gross Point Territory in the 1830s. It was in 1836 that non-Indian Americans first settled in, and in 1850 they were called Ridgeville. In 1851, a group of Methodists established Northwestern University and selected the area as a new base. In 1854, the founders of Northwestern University submitted to county judges a plan for a city called Evanston, on behalf of one of their leaders, John Evans. In 1857, this request was approved.

Evanston was officially incorporated as a town on December 29, 1863, but declined the town system in 1869 to become a city, even though the Illinois State Council passed a bill to convert the town into a city. After the Civil War, it expanded its area by merging villages in North Evanston. Finally, in the early 1892, following the annexation of South Evanston Village, the city was chosen to form the city by a vote of voters.

The area of the city in 1892 was almost the same as the one that exists today. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, there were unincorporated and disputed regions called Norman Land on the Lake Michigan coast between Evanston and the suburbs of Wilmet. The dispute ended with Wilmet's advantage and the region was incorporated into Wilmet's village. Actor Charlton Heston was born in Normandu Land, and his autobiography "At the Stadium" describes the location. However, Heston wrote that the birthplace of Norman Land became a part of Evanston.

In 1939, the final of the first NCAA men's basketball championship was held at Patten Gymnasium at Northwestern University.

After World War II, it developed into a high-class residential area where people can commute to Chicago. Because the train called 'L' runs to the center of Chicago, and the town spreads from Lake Michigan, the number of wealthy people also increases because they can drive to work on an expressway along Lake Shore.

In August 1954, the second World Church Council Meeting was held in Evanston, and it is the only Council meeting held in the United States of America. President Dwight D. Eisenhower met his delegation and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Doug Hammarshold, and made an important speech titled "The Tools of Faith."

In the 1960s, Northwestern University reclaimed the shore of the lake by 74 acres (300,000 meters2), changing the city's boundaries.

gross point light house

Today, the Evanston City has the headquarters of the Alpha Phi, the International Rotary Club, the National College of Technology, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Friendship Society, the Sigma Key Friendship Society, and the Christian Women's Temperance Association, which are educational institutions such as Northwestern University, and the International Friendship Association of Female Students.

Evanston is the birthplace of Tinkhartouy (a toy that can be enjoyed in combination), and a local legend says that a pharmacist in Evanston had invented ice cream Sunday, which has been disputed by Isaka, New York and Tu Rivers, Wisconsin.

Between 1858 and 1972, Evanston was prohibited from selling dry drinks or commercial offering, and in 1972 the City Administration Committee voted to allow restaurants and hotels to provide alcoholic beverages in their facilities only. In addition, in 1984, the City Government Committee approved the retail of alcoholic beverages in the city.

Evanston is located at latitude 42 degrees 2 minutes 47 seconds north and longitude 87 degrees 41 minutes 41 seconds west and latitude 42.04639 degrees north and longitude 87.69472 degrees west and 42.04639 degrees; -87.69472 (42.046380, -87.694608), with an altitude of 600 feet (180 meters). According to the National Census Bureau, the total area of the city is 7.8 square miles (20.1 km²), of which land is 7.8 square miles (20.0 km²), water surface is 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ²), and water surface is 0.26%.

In August 2004, there was some confusion about the size of Evanston. Until then, the area of the city was often set at 8.4 square miles, but it turned out to be a mistake. The 7.8 square miles are more accurate than the United States Census.

The following is demographic data from the 2000 census.

The Evanston Municipal Government adopts a municipal committee and a manager system, and the city is divided into nine electoral districts, each of which serves as a member of the City Council, or a member of the City Council. The current mayor is Elizabeth Tisdale, the successor to long-term Laurean H. Morton.

In April 2009, a mayoral election was held and the voter turnout was low, but Elizabeth Tisdale became the mayor after winning against the other three candidates.

Evanston has a history of supporting the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) nominee in every level of government. In the 2004 presidential election, Democratic Party candidate John Kerry won 82%. Rival Republican George W. Bush was only 17%.

In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama won about 87%.

• In the early days of the establishment of Evanston, the city was called "Heaven" because the Methodist had a strong influence and tried to impose its strict morality.
• In the early 20th century, Evanston was called the "city of church."
• In 1920, there were various works of outstanding architects and many famous residences, especially near the lakeside, so the town was nicknamed 'the city of houses.' This fact is often advertised by local real estate agents. This nickname has been given to the address at the local Kai Varnish Club in 1924.
• Since the latter half of the twentieth century, Evanston had an innovative policy, so he was sometimes called the People's Republic of Evanston (or ironically) with some humor.

Evanston Public Library

public school

high school

Most of Evanston City (and a part of Skokie Village) is in Evanston Township High School District 202. The school district has one high school called Evanston Township High School, and the number of students is over 3,000 from the ninth to the twelfth. The high school's mascot is a wild kit (a small version of the Wild Cats at the University of North Western), and the school colors are orange and blue. The biggest rival is Winetoca's New Toria High School.

primary education

Evanston Scokey Community Integrated Education School District 65 covers the entire city of Evanston and the Scoquay part, and is in charge of primary education from pre-kindergarten through to eighth grade. The school district has ten elementary schools (up to fifth grade), three junior high schools (up to sixth grade and eighth grade), two magnet schools (up to eighth grade), and three special schools or centers. The number of children in the area was 6,622 as of 2004. The Sukhoi area, which is operated by the Evanston School District, is sometimes called Skevanston. In 2007, at the Illinois State Standard Achievement Test, Willard Elementary School in Evanston was ranked 8th in the state.

private and parish schools

In addition to public schools in Evanston, you can choose a variety of educational opportunities. The Roismore School is a day school that is a preparatory school for independent co-education colleges, and it provides general education for children from pre-kindergarten through to 12th grade. Since St. George's High School was closed in 1969, there have been no Catholic high schools in Evanston, but many of the students have attended Catholic high schools in other areas, such as the co-education Loyola Academy in Wilmet, the Notre Dame High School in Niles, the St. Scholastica Academy in Chicago, and the Regina Dominican High School in Wilmet. There are nine private elementary and secondary schools in and around Evanston City.

Photo taken in August 2006, showing a view to the west of the shopping street along Davis Street. The Metra's Station looks down.

The growth of Evanston City was largely due to the fact that the city could be moved by rail from Chicago. The founders of the University of North Western have determined the location of the university here since the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad was on track. The Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad started making stops in Evanston City in 1855. Later, Evanston experienced rapid growth as a suburban residential area developed under the influence of the first streetcar. The North Shore Line was the origin of the nickname of the area from Church Street in Evanston to Warkegan.

The convenience of transportation makes Evanston attractive even today. The Purple Line, a part of the Chicago L network of the Chicago Transportation Bureau, runs through Evanston. At Howard Station in Chicago, it starts at and goes north, stops at South Boulevard, Main, Dempster, Davis, Foster, Noyes and Central, and Wilmet's Linden is the terminal station. The Union Pacific/North Line of Metra also runs through Evanston, and there are stops on Main Street, Davis Street and Central Street, and the first two stations approach Purple Line stations. The Yellow Line of the Chicago Transportation Bureau also runs in the city, but there are no stops. Evanston also has a non-profit car-sharing system, I-GO.

There are six bus routes of the Chicago Transportation Bureau and four Pace bus routes in Evanston.

Evanston is an important shopping district in the north of Chicago and on the North Side, where one of the Marshall Field's early stores and a suburban shop in Sears once stood, and there are many commercial centers in the city. The main ones are as follows.

• Central Street - Around Metra Station and L System Station on Davis Street. Adjacent to Northwestern University. There are more than 300 companies, high rise office buildings and residential buildings, three traditional low-rise shopping districts, 18-screen movie theaters, and more than 85 restaurants.
• Central Street - It is the most active mass in the neighborhood of Metra Station on Central Street, a shopping district connected along the north side of a group of main roads running east-west through the city, and is characterized by specialty shops and restaurants. It is located in an environment in which people can walk around with 'a small town' with a wide variety of years, and is protected by the community.
• Dempster Street - It's just outside Dempster's Chicago L System station. There are more than 60 stores, many of them small and fashionable, including Bagel Art, Vegetarian Pride Face Cafe, the Mexican Shop (which sells women's clothing and accessories around the world), Second Hand Tunes, Lolly (child's boutique) and FolkWorks Galleries.
• Main Street - Nearly three blocks adjacent to both the Chicago Transportation Bureau and the Metro Station, and a row of small interested shops in the urban redevelopment area, including Evanston Arts Depot.
• Howard Street - a line of many small shops near the Chicago border. A small thriving shopping mall, called Howard Center, was built near the border with Scoquay at the western edge of Avenue after some discussion was held in the 1990s.
• Chicago Avenue: It is an extension of a street called Clark Street running parallel to the railway line in Chicago, and runs from Howard Street to the north along the north-south highway in Evanston to the end of Northwestern University. Chicago Avenue connects Main Street, Dempster Street, and the central commercial district. There used to be a lot of car dealers, but many restaurants have attracted many restaurants, housing houses have increased and companies are interested in.

There are two general hospitals in Evanston.

• Evanston Hospital, part of the North Shore University Health System
• St. Francis Hospital, Part of Recreational Health Care

"The Arch" at the main entrance of the Evanston Campus of Northwestern University

Repeated discussions in Evanston are the status of Northwestern University as a non-taxable organization. According to the University Establishment Authorization Document signed in 1851, the state has its own security, but it has no function of fire defense and emergency medical care, unlike other rich private universities that allow the exemption of asset tax and have legal exemption. They pay water, sewage and communication charges, real estate transfer taxes and substantial construction permits, but they do not pay real estate taxes. The University of North Western does not pay a replacement for the property tax and is removed from the asset tax book.

Critics of Northwestern University claim that it consumes far more from the city than it contributes. However, the supporters have reprimanded the benefits of having a privileged research institution. The dispute was rekindled when the university bought an eight-story building in the center city and removed it from the asset tax book. The Kyoto Municipal Government Commission's ordinance did not meet the Kyoto Municipal Government Council's Cabinet Order's Ordinance, which was passed in April by a referendum on the matter which university supporters called the "Shoso Amount Initiative."

Since the late 1990s, there has been a lot of discussion about the rapid increase in the development of high rise buildings, especially in the central town. The slanderous contenders argued that the development will remove what they call the "characteristic of Evanston". They say many of the local businesses will be replaced by their worst competitor, the chain store. In contrast, the supporters argue that high rise buildings bring the lives they need to live in the urban center of the city where they are dying, bringing the income they need for the city's chronic budget deficit.

As of 2006, there are concerns about the differences in finding housing that low income people in Evanston can buy. The western part of Evanston, a former powerful middle-class African american society, has been redeveloped and the population of ethnic minorities has steadily declined. Former mayor Lorraine H Morton tried to convince construction companies to build a medium-sized, expensive housing of less than $350,000, but none of his efforts succeeded.

In 2009, Northwestern University bought a fire truck for the city for $550,000. "We are happy to be able to afford the new fire engine that the city needs most in the debate about helping the city's finances," said Morton Shapiro, President of the Institute.

• centralstreetneighbors.com - an active website based in the Central Street area with blogs by community leaders and activists
• The Daily North Western - College Student Newspaper
• Evanston Now - Local On line Newspaper
• Evanston Review - A weekly newspaper published by Sun Times Newsgroup
• Evanston Round Table - Local Biweekly Newspaper
• Evanston Sentinel - Mainly African-American Society of Evanston, Local monthly newspaper
• The Evanstinian - Evanston Township High School Newspaper

The following list lists the famous people who were born or lived in Evanston.

business world

• Lester Clown founded a company that merged with General Dynamics
• Bob Garbin, CEO of Motorola
• Gordon Segal, Founder and CEO of the retail chain, Crate and Barrel

show business

• Carlos Bernard, Actor
• Tamara Brown, actress
• Marron Brand, Actor
• voice of William Christopher and the actor and philanthropy
• Joan Cusack, actress
• John Cusack, actor
• Robert Falls, Tony Award-winning director
• Zach Guilford, actor
• Alicia Golanson, actress
• Charlton Heston, Actor
• Walter Carr
• Jeffrey Liber, writer and co-sponsor of the TV show "LOST"
• Richard Long, actor
• John Lee McHin, Academy Award-Winning Film Screenwriter
• Michael Madsen, actor
• Elizabeth McGavan, Academy Award-Winning Actress
• Josh Meyers, comedian
• John Moffat, Producer
• Jay Neidu, Actor
• William Petersen, actor
• Steven Pink, Director, Film Screenwriter, Producer
• Jeremy Pyven, actor
• Anna D. Shapiro, Award-Winning Director
• Saniel Sanjata, Actor
• Ruby Wax, Comedy Actress
• Jennifer Weigel, Actress and Writer
• Rafer Weigel, Actor, TV personality

sports world

• Elmer Bennett, ACB basketball players
• Luke Donald, a professional golfer
• Paddy Driscoll, American Football Player in Hall of Fame
• Kevin Foster, MLB Baseball Player, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers
• Clint Frank, American football player, 1937 Heisman Award
• Damon Jones, former NBA basketball player
• Mike Ken, NFL American football player, Atlanta Falcons
• Freddy Lindstrom, MLB Baseball Player, Hall of Fame
• Former professional cyclists, lawyers and writers who also participated in the Olympics, Bob Mionsk
• Emery Morehead, former NFL American football player, Chicago Bears
• Dan Peterson, basketball coach
• third-base coach of Mike Quaid and Chicago Cubs
• Everett Stevens, NBA Basketball, Indiana Päisers, Milwaukee Bucks
• Peter Uveros, The 6th MLB Commissioner, Chairman of the American Olympic Committee
• Aaron Williams NBA basketball players
• Timothy Gables, Figure Skaters and Salt Lake Olympic bronze medalists
• Peter Bernside - former MLB baseball player and former NPB baseball player (Hanshin Tigers)

Writers, thinkers, artists, scientists and cultures

• Jane Fulton Alto, Photographer
• Argiz Badris, a science fiction writer
• Richard Baskin, New York Times bestseller
• Allen G. Debs, a Historian of Science and Medicine
• Co-founder and author of BlogHer.com, Jolie de Jardin
• Lawrence Hammond, inventor of the Hammond organ
• Charles R. Johnson, writer, National Book Prize winner
• Journalist David Epstein and Sports Illustrated
• Joseph Epstein, writer and essayist
• Carl Fix, Author, and Director
• Charles Gibson, News Anchor
• Charles "Chuck" Hillinger, a long-time journalist for Los Angeles Times
• Eugene Montgomery, painter
• Roger Mayerson, 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Drou Pearson, newspaper columnist
• Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Mark Pinski, Math Pinski
• Richard Powers, Author, National Book Prize winner
• Albert Tangola, a world record holder at the speed of a typewriter
• Gary Wiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and critic
• J. Allen Heinek, Astronaut, Professor, UFO researcher
• Gurhan Wilson, cartoonist who appeared in "The New Yorker" and "Playboy" magazines
• Mildred L. Baccherder, the person who was the name of the Library of the United States award given to the Translator, the former Haven Elementary School librarian, and one of the objectives of the award was to encourage the translation of children's books around the world and to "remove barriers to understanding different cultures, races, peoples and languages"

political world

• Vice Ministers of State for President George Wileman Ball, Kennedy and Johnson
• Charles Doze, 30th Vice President of the United States of America (incumbent 1925-1929), Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1925
• Members of the United States House of Representatives
• John Porter, United States House of Representatives
• Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense of the United States, Member of the United States House of Representatives
• Lloyd Zimmerman, Minnesota jurist

historical figure

• Katharine War Macarlock, lawyer, women's suffrage activist, first woman to be a security judge in Illinois
• Francis Willard, Women's Temperance Activist, and Suffrage Activist

Musicians

• Steve Albini
• Fred Anderson
• Harold "Plu" Brownley, Ialatic Static
• David Burge
• Jessro, Homer and Jessro, Kenneth C. Barnes
• David Cherry
• Kevin Cronin, REO Speed Wagon Lead Vocal
• Enik Funk and Paddy Castelo and Dillinger For
• Patty Drowe, 1960s Seoul singers
• Steve Goodman
• Greg Gran
• Nancy Gustafson
• Howard Levy
• Carl E. H. Siegfried
• Bobby Short
• Natalie Sriese
• Grace Slick
• Eddie Bedder and Pearl Jam
• Lorraine Weiman
• David Ryan Harris
• Abigail Washburn

literature

• In the film making of the novel, the character Conrad Jarrett is seen in an office building overlooking the Evanston Township High School. Later, he moved to high school.
• At Kurt Vonnegut's cradle is Evanston.
• In St. Clair Lewis's main street, Carol walks through Evanston and praises the building
• Richard Wright's Native Sun thinks Bigger Thomas will run to Evanston
• On the day that you found me, Audrey Niffeneger, you visited Evanston many times
• In the adventure of Augie March in Saul Belaux, the hero's young man works for a family in Evanston
• Eric Larson's Novel The Demon of the White City
• Heroin Cloud 9 is from Evanston

Movies and TV

With its close proximity to Chicago, various houses and commercial districts in Evanston have become a popular movie studio. As of December 2008, it was the location of 65 films, and John Hughes's films are especially famous. Moreover, Evanston is mentioned as a stage in many other works.

• In the 2003 film Cheaper by the Dozen, the Baker family moved to Evanston. However, the location is not Evanston.
• In the 1993 film Dennis the Menace, almost all of the stories were shot in Evanston. Mr. Wilson and Dennis live in Ashland Avenue, between Church and Davis. Houses in this block were also filmed.
• The Meene Girls, where Lindsey Rohan appeared, are set in Evanston and Evanston Township High School, but the high schools in the movie are not real, shooting takes place in Chicago, and the Old Orchard Shopping Center is not in Evanston or an indoor mall.
• The live-action scene of Princess Brides Story is not clearly called Evanston, but according to the script, it is set in Evanston.
• ABC's Once and Again is set in Evanston.
• Kevin Costner played the role in Dragonfly in Evanston.
• Most of the 1984 film Sixteen Candles was shot in and around Evanston. The Baker family is located 3,000 blocks on Paine Street.
• Home Alone 3 was taken in Evanston.

Evanston has vowed to be the "greenest city in the United States." The Evanston Strategy Plan, established on March 27, 2006, will create the most comfortable city in the United States, and will promote the best quality of life to all residents. One goal is to create and maintain high quality infrastructure and facilities that are functionally appropriate, sustainable and accessible. The project includes the development of environmentally friendly lakes and a comprehensive long-term infrastructure improvement plan. The second goal is not to protect the natural resources of the city, create the environment and destroy them. The city hopes to improve its transportation resources to be safer, more integrated, more accessible, more energy efficient, and more responsive to demand. The alternatives to transportation are the buses of the Chicago Transportation Bureau and Pay, the trains of the Chicago Transportation Bureau and the Metra, and side roads and bicycle roads for miles.

The global warming prevention plan of Evanston, established in November 2008, plans to integrate actions to make Evanston a more sustainable place. The main goal is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by various means in transportation, buildings, energy sources, waste and food production. These measures include the development oriented to supportive multi-purpose use, greening, high performance and mobility, and the promotion of car sharing and eco-path programs.

At Evanston, there is the Ford Engineering Design Center of Northwestern University and the Jewish Reconstruction Center, each of which has been certified by Silver and Platinum as environmental assessment systems. In addition, the Green Building Ordinance of Evanston has adopted certification acquisition of an environmental performance evaluation system for the development of a certain type of new building. Evanston has an Environment Council and a Sustainability Department.

Francis Willard's House

• Francis Willard's House
• gross point light house
• The Ladd Garden
• Trashmore
• Northwestern University

• City of Evanston
• Evanston Public Library