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Evanston is a city in the region of along the shores of . 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.
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  • Type: City with 78,100 residents
  • Description: suburban city in Cook County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Evanston”, “Evanston IL”, “Evanston, IL”, “Evanston, Illinois”, “Grosse Pointe”, and “Ridgeville”
  • Postal codes: 60201-60204, 60208, and 60209
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Northwestern University Library and Marywood Academy.

Library
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Northwestern University Libraries is the main academic library system of . Northwestern Libraries host a total of 8,198,268 printed or electronic volumes.

Town hall
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The is a historic building located at 2100 Ridge Avenue in Evanston, . The building was built in 1900 as Visitation Academy to serve as a girls' Catholic school led by the Visitation Sisters.

Library
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Charles is an academic library of , a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Deering served as the university's main library on the Evanston campus from 1933, when it was established, until the construction of the in 1970.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wilmette and Rogers Park.

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

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is the northern border of — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks.

Neighborhood
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The is a residential historic district in Evanston, . The district encompasses a section of southeast Evanston that was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Evanston

Latitude
42.047° or 42° 2′ 49″ north
Longitude
-87.6846° or 87° 41′ 5″ west
Population
78,100
Elevation
614 feet (187 metres)
Named after
John Evans
United Nations Location Code
US EVD
Open location code
86JJ28W8+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1932763468
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4891382
Wiki­data ID
Q462799
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Evanston” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيفانستون”
  • Armenian: “Էվանստոն”
  • Asturian: “Evanston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Evanston”
  • Basque: “Evanston”
  • Belarusian: “Эванстан (Ілінойс)”
  • Belarusian: “Эванстан”
  • Bengali: “এভানসটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Еванстън”
  • Catalan: “Evanston”
  • Cebuano: “Evanston”
  • Chechen: “Эванстон”
  • Chinese: “Evanston”
  • Chinese: “伊雲斯頓”
  • Chinese: “埃文斯頓”
  • Chinese: “埃文斯顿”
  • Croatian: “Evanston”
  • Czech: “Evanston”
  • Dagbani: “Evanston”
  • Danish: “Evanston”
  • Dutch: “Evanston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايفانستون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايڤانستون”
  • Esperanto: “Evanston”
  • Finnish: “Evanston”
  • French: “Evanston”
  • Galician: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Galician: “Evanston”
  • German: “Evanston”
  • Gilaki: “اونستؤن (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “اونستؤن”
  • Greek: “Έβανστον”
  • Gujarati: “એવન્સ્ટન”
  • Haitian: “Evanston, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Evanston”
  • Hausa: “Birnin evanston”
  • Hausa: “Evanston Il”
  • Hebrew: “אוונסטון”
  • Hindi: “एवंसटन”
  • Hungarian: “Evanston”
  • Ido: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Ido: “Evanston”
  • Inari Sami: “Evanston”
  • Indonesian: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Indonesian: “Evanston”
  • Irish: “Evanston”
  • Italian: “Evanston”
  • Japanese: “エヴァンストン”
  • Japanese: “エバンストン”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Evanston”
  • Kannada: “ಇವಾನ್ಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Эванстон”
  • Korean: “에번스턴”
  • Ladin: “Evanston”
  • Latvian: “Evanstona”
  • Lithuanian: “Evanstonas”
  • Lule Sami: “Evanston”
  • Luxembourgish: “Evanston”
  • Malay: “Evanston”
  • Malayalam: “എവൻസ്റ്റൺ”
  • Marathi: “इव्हानस्टोन”
  • Marathi: “इव्हॅन्स्टन”
  • Mazanderani: “اوانستون (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “اوانستون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Evanston”
  • Newari: “इभान्सटन”
  • Newari: “इभ्यान्स्तन, इलिनोइ”
  • Northern Sami: “Evanston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Evanston”
  • Norwegian: “Evanston”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Evanston”
  • Ossetian: “Эванстон”
  • Persian: “اوانستون، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “اوانستون”
  • Pite Sami: “Evanston”
  • Polish: “Evanston”
  • Portuguese: “Evanston”
  • Romanian: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Romanian: “Evanston”
  • Russian: “Эванстон”
  • Scots: “Evanston”
  • Serbian: “Еванстон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Evanston”
  • Silesian: “Evanston”
  • Sinhala: “එවන්ස්ටන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Evanston”
  • Slovak: “Evanston”
  • Slovenian: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Slovenian: “Evanston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوانستون، ایلینوی”
  • Southern Sami: “Evanston”
  • Spanish: “Evanston (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Evanston”
  • Swahili: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Swahili: “Evanston”
  • Swedish: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Evanston”
  • Tagalog: “Evanston”
  • Talysh: “Evanston”
  • Tamil: “எவன்ஸ்டோன்”
  • Tatar: “Эванстон”
  • Telugu: “ఎవాన్స్టన్”
  • Thai: “อีแวนสตัน”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Evanston”
  • Turkish: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Evanston”
  • Ukrainian: “Еванстон”
  • Ume Sami: “Evanston”
  • Urdu: “اوانسٹن، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “اوانسٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Evanston”
  • Vietnamese: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Evanston”
  • Volapük: “Evanston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Evanston”
  • Welsh: “Evanston, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Evanston”
  • Western Frisian: “Evanston”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃文斯顿（伊利诺伊州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃文斯顿”
  • “Evanston”

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