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Wilmette, Illinois. / 42.07722°N 87.72361°W / 42.07722; -87.72361. Wilmette is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Bordering Lake Michigan and Evanston, Illinois, it is located 14 miles (23 km) north of Chicago 's downtown district. Wilmette had a population of 28,170 at the 2020 census. [ 3]
Wilmette Public Schools District 39 (D39) is a school district headquartered in the Mikaelian Education Center in Wilmette, Illinois in the Chicago metropolitan area.The boundaries of the school district include most of Wilmette, a small part of southeastern Glenview, with a population of 27,247 as of 2019, and a neighborhood in unincorporated Cook County with Winnetka addresses.
The House of Worship is a domed structure surrounded by gardens and fountains [39] on a 6.97-acre (2.82 ha) plot of land. The space between the floor of the auditorium and the ceiling of the dome measures 138 feet (42 m) high, and the interior of the dome is 72 feet (22 m) in diameter. The auditorium seats 1,191 people.
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [2] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
Centennial Park (Champaign, Illinois) / 40.10056°N 88.28389°W / 40.10056; -88.28389. Located in the western part of Champaign, Illinois, Centennial Park is the second largest park operated by the Champaign Park District. Land for the park was acquired in 1959 for an estimated cost of $161,800. [2] Since its acquisition of the land ...
Plaza del Lago. / 42.08694°N 87.70139°W / 42.08694; -87.70139. Plaza del Lago is a shopping center at 1515 Sheridan Road in Wilmette, Illinois, United States, which opened in 1928 as Spanish Court. It has been reported as the second-oldest shopping center in the United States designed for automobile use, [3] [4] [5] and the first such ...
This picture of the Civil War Memorial in Central Park, Honesdale, was taken in 1880, 11 years after it was dedicated on Sept. 9, 1969, by Gov. John W. Geary. The spiked, iron fence was added in ...
The Champaign Park District is the municipality association responsible for maintenance of public parks in the city of Champaign, Illinois. There are just over 650 acres (2.6 km 2) of parkland within the city limits. [1] As of the fiscal year 2011-2012, the park district had an operating budget of almost $11.5 million. [2]