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Wilmette

Wilmette 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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  • Type: Village with 28,200 residents
  • Description: village in Cook County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Ouilmette Reservation”, “Village of Wilmette”, “Wilmette, IL”, and “Wilmette, Illinois”
  • Postal code: 60091
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kenilworth Club and Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum.

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

Museum
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The is a in that focuses exclusively on the history, culture and arts of North American native peoples.

Railway station
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Linden is an 'L' station and the northern terminus of Purple Line. It is the only 'L' stop in Wilmette, Illinois, and is located at 349 Linden Avenue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Evanston and Winnetka.

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is a city in the region of along the shores of . 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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is a village in , United States, 16 miles north of downtown . The population was 12,475 as of the 2020 census. The village is one of the wealthiest places in the United States in terms of household income.

Village
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is a village in , United States, 15 miles north of downtown . As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,514.

Wilmette

Latitude
42.0761° or 42° 4′ 34″ north
Longitude
-87.7116° or 87° 42′ 42″ west
Population
28,200
Elevation
636 feet (194 metres)
Named after
Antoine Ouilmette
United Nations Location Code
US XTT
Open location code
86JJ37GQ+C9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153778118
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4916732
Wiki­data ID
Q578301
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Wilmette” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويلميت”
  • Armenian: “Ուիլմետ”
  • Basque: “Wilmette”
  • Belarusian: “Уілмет”
  • Bulgarian: “Уилмет”
  • Catalan: “Wilmette”
  • Cebuano: “Wilmette”
  • Chinese: “Wilmette”
  • Chinese: “威尔梅特”
  • Chinese: “威爾明特”
  • Chinese: “威爾梅特 (伊利諾州)”
  • Chinese: “威爾梅特”
  • Dagbani: “Wilmette”
  • Danish: “Wilmette”
  • Dutch: “Wilmette”
  • French: “Wilmette”
  • Galician: “Wilmette”
  • German: “Wilmette”
  • Gilaki: “ویلمت (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “ویلمت”
  • Haitian: “Wilmette, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Wilmette”
  • Hebrew: “וילמט”
  • Irish: “Wilmette, Illinois”
  • Irish: “Wilmette”
  • Italian: “Wilmette”
  • Japanese: “ウィルメット (イリノイ州)”
  • Japanese: “ウィルメット”
  • Korean: “윌메트”
  • Korean: “윌멧”
  • Ladin: “Wilmette”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wilmette”
  • Mazanderani: “ویلمیت (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “ویلمیت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wilmette”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilmette”
  • Norwegian: “Wilmette”
  • Polish: “Wilmette”
  • Portuguese: “Wilmette”
  • Romanian: “Wilmette”
  • Russian: “Уилметт”
  • Scots: “Wilmette”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wilmette, Illinois”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wilmette”
  • Serbian: “Вилмет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wilmette, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wilmette”
  • Slovenian: “Wilmette”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویلمت، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Wilmette (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Wilmette”
  • Swedish: “Wilmette”
  • Tagalog: “Wilmette”
  • Turkish: “Wilmette, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Wilmette”
  • Ukrainian: “Вілметт”
  • Uzbek: “Wilmette”
  • Uzbek: “Wилметте”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilmette, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Wilmette”
  • Volapük: “Wilmette”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wilmette, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wilmette”
  • Welsh: “Wilmette, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Wilmette”

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