Village of Wilmette

Village of Wilmette is a locality in Cook, Illinois. Village of Wilmette is situated nearby to the neighborhood Gross Point, as well as near the village Kenilworth.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum and Kenilworth station.

Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum

Museum

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The Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum is a museum in Evanston, Illinois that focuses exclusively on the history, culture and arts of North American native peoples.

Kenilworth station

Railway station

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Kenilworth is a commuter railroad station in Kenilworth, Illinois, a small and affluent village in the North Shore area of Chicago. Metra's Union Pacific North Line trains go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Kenilworth Club

Community center

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The Kenilworth Assembly Hall is a historic clubhouse located at 410 Kenilworth Avenue in Kenilworth, Illinois. The clubhouse was built in 1907 as a social club for the wealthy Chicago suburb.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wilmette and Winnetka.

Wilmette is 16 miles north of Chicago. It is part of the affluent corridor of lakefront Chicago suburbs known as the North Shore. It is the location of the world's oldest still-standing Bahá'í House of Worship.

Winnetka

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Winnetka is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 16 miles north of downtown Chicago. The population was 12,508 as of the 2026 census. The village is one of the wealthiest places in the United States in terms of household income.

Evanston

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Evanston is a city in the North Shore region of Illinois along the shores of Lake Michigan. Evanston has many identities: college town, dining destination, cultural center and gateway to the wealthy North Shore, although the city itself is anything but homogeneous in regards to economic status, culture and race.

Village of Wilmette

Type: Locality with 27,100 residents
Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.0771° or 42° 4′ 37″ north

Longitude

-87.7282° or 87° 43′ 42″ west

Population

27,100

Elevation

630 feet (192 metres)

Open location code

86JJ37GC+RP

GeoNames ID

7317590

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