Central Utility Plant

Central Utility Plant is a university building in Evanston, Cook, Illinois, which is located on Campus Drive. Central Utility Plant is situated near the park Northwestern University Lakefill, as well as near the theater building Shanley Hall.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Northwestern University Lakefill and Deering Library.

Northwestern University Lakefill

Park

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The Northwestern University Lakefill is a large area of Northwestern University land that was reclaimed from Lake Michigan in 1962–1964 by creating a seawall of limestone blocks quarried in Illinois and Indiana and using landfill materials from the construction of the Port of Indiana.

Deering Library

Library

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Charles Deering Memorial Library is an academic library of Northwestern University, 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 Northwestern University Main Library in 1970. Deering Library is situated 610 feet south of Central Utility Plant.

Shakespeare Garden

Garden

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The Shakespeare Garden in Evanston, Illinois, United States, is a Shakespeare garden on the campus of Northwestern University. Planned in 1915 and built from 1916 to 1929, the garden was the first Shakespeare Garden in the United States.

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 west of Central Utility Plant.

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.

Central Utility Plant

Type: University building
Address: 2026 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Categories: building and education
Location: Evanston, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.05478° or 42° 3′ 17″ north

Longitude

-87.6745° or 87° 40′ 28″ west

Open location code

86JJ383G+W6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 220670539

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

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