Downtown
Downtown is a neighborhood in Evanston, Cook, Illinois. Downtown is situated nearby to the neighborhood Evanston Lakeshore Historic District, as well as near South Evanston.Places of Interest
Highlights include Evanston Public Library and Davis Street/Evanston station.
Evanston Public Library
Library
Davis Street/Evanston station
Railway station
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Davis Street/Evanston is a commuter railroad station in downtown Evanston, Illinois. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line with trains going south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Davis station
Metro station
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Davis is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois. It is located at 1612 Benson Avenue, in the middle of downtown Evanston, and next to the Davis Street stop of Metra's Union Pacific North Line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Evanston Lakeshore Historic District and Central Street.
Evanston Lakeshore Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Evanston Lakeshore Historic District is a residential historic district in Evanston, Illinois. The district encompasses a section of southeast Evanston that was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Central Street
Neighborhood
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Central Street is the principal east-west artery in the far north of Evanston, Illinois and is a major thoroughfare in other northern and northwest suburbs of Chicago. Central Street is situated 2 miles northwest of Downtown.
Wilmette
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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.
Downtown
- Type: Neighborhood
- Category: locality
- Location: Evanston, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.04904° or 42° 2′ 57″ northLongitude
-87.68127° or 87° 40′ 53″ westOpen location code
86JJ28X9+JFOpenStreetMap ID
node 3272487998OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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