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'''Evanston''' (formerly Ridgeville, Illinois) is a city on [[Lake Michigan]] located in [[Cook County, Illinois]] directly north of [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], east of [[Skokie, Illinois|Skokie]], and south of [[Wilmette, Illinois|Wilmette]]. The city was first settled in [[1836]], and as of the [[2000]] census, the city had a total population of 74,239. Evanston is part of Chicago's
[[Image:Northwestern Arch.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"The Arch," the main entrance to the Evanston campus of [[Northwestern University]]]]▼
After being chosen as the home for [[Northwestern University]], the city was incorporated in [[1863]], and named after [[John Evans (state governor)|John Evans]]. During the 1960s Northwestern University changed the city's shoreline with a 74 acre (300,000 m²) lakefill.
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== People from Evanston ==
▲[[Image:Northwestern Arch.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"The Arch," the main entrance to the Evanston campus of [[Northwestern University]]]]
Famous Evanstonians include [[actor|actors]] [[Charlton Heston]], [[John Cusack]], [[Joan Cusack]], Alicia (Lecy) Goranson, [[Michael Madsen]], [[Jeremy Piven]], and [[William Petersen]], comedian [[Ruby Wax]], drama critic [[Walter Kerr]], Hall of Fame baseball player [[Freddie Lindstrom]], Hall of Fame football player [[Paddy Driscoll]], [[inventor|inventors]] [[Laurens Hammond]], news anchor [[Charles Gibson]], newspaper columnist [[Drew Pearson]], [[politician|politicians]] [[Charles Gates Dawes]] and [[Jim Kolbe]], Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]], temperance advocate and suffragist [[Frances Willard]], and [[musician|musicians]] Michael Bard, Forrest Buchtel, Jr., [[David Burge]], Jethro Burns, [[Frank Donaldson]], [[Steve Goodman]], Cecil Holden, Valerie LaMaar, [[Howard Levy]], Junior Mance, Harvey Mandel, Paul Nebenzahl, Joel Erenberg, Fred Simon, [[Bobby Short]], [[Grace Slick]], Mark Skyer, Mike Skyer, and [[Eddie Vedder]].
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