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20 unusual facts about Evanston


17251 Vondracek

The asteroid was discovered on April 7, 2000, and was named for Mark Vondracek, a high school teacher of Evanston, Illinois.

Central Street

Central Street (Evanston, IL), a major east-west road and shopping district in Evanston, Illinois

Clint Frank

Clinton E. Frank died at the Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Illinois after a brief illness.

Frank attended Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois, where he obtained notoriety as a superb football player.

Cy Touff

Cyril James Touff (March 4, 1927, Chicago – January 24, 2003, Evanston, Illinois) was a jazz bass trumpeter.

Edna L. McRae

Her last award, was her induction to the Carl Schurz High School Hall of Fame just two months prior to her death in Evanston, Illinois.

Evanston, Wyoming

Public education in the city of Evanston is provided by Uinta County School District #1.

Gestural Variations

It was first performed in 1997 by John Dee, Henry Skolnick and José Lopez at the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Hans Egon Holthusen

In the early 1960s Holthusen worked at the Goethe-Institut in New York City, subsequently obtaining a professorship at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a post which he held until 1981.

Herman Churchill

Churchill began his academic career as an instructor of English literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1903.

Highwood, Illinois

Given the dry nature of most towns between Evanston and Kenosha, Highwood enjoyed a high per capita number of bars and taverns.

J. Frank Duryea

On November 28, 1895, Frank Duryea won the first motor-car race in the United States, a 54-mile loop along the lakeshore from Chicago to Evanston and back again.

Lawrence Langowski

After graduating from Gordon Tech High School, Langowski attended Northwestern University in Evanston, where he signed onto the wrestling team as a recruited walk-on.

Mushfiqur Rahman

He is an active member of the Sigma Chi North American fraternity based out of Evanston, Illinois, and he is a Global Representative for the University of Waterloo.

Penny Bernard Schaber

When she returned to the United States, she attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she received a degree in physical therapy.

Ridgeville Township, Illinois

Ridgeville Township, Illinois was a civil township in Illinois, United States, comprising approximately what are now the Lakeview, Uptown, Edgewater, and Rogers Park neighborhoods of Chicago, and also part of what is now Evanston.

Robert Beadell

After military service as a bandsman with the United States Marines during the Second World War, Beadell enrolled in the music program at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where his clarinet teacher, Dominick DiCaprio, encouraged him to study composition.

The History of Cardenio

A full production of the play, which noted the contested authorship, was mounted at the Next Theatre in Evanston, Illinois in 1998.

Treaty of Prairie du Chien

By this treaty, the tribes ceded to the United States an area in present-day northwestern Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin, as well as the areas currently occupied by the cities of Wilmette and Evanston.

Verbal Kent

Kent managed to run to his car, and drove himself to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston as blood poured from his neck.


1 William Street

This building is noted in Stephen Birmingham's book, "Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York" (Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, Evanston and London, 1967, pg. 43).

Arthur E. Andersen

Arthur E. Andersen also served as Treasurer of the Norwegian-American Historical Association (1936–42) and was a director of the State Bank & Trust Co. (Evanston, Illinois).

Dick Cusack

He was honored with an award from the Evanston Arts Council for preserving a school and converting it into the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, which houses the Piven Theatre Workshop where his famous acting children trained.

Erich Heller

Heller's personal papers, including private correspondence and manuscripts, are preserved in parts at the Northwestern University Archives in Evanston, and in parts at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Schiller-Nationalmuseum) in the southwestern German city of Marbach am Neckar (Baden-Württemberg).

Gardner Read

Gardner Read (January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois – November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar.

Gregg Edelman

Edelman was born in Chicago, Illinois, attended Niles North High School, where he starred as Li'l Abner opposite future soap star Nancy Lee Grahn, and was trained at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).

H.H.C. Miller

The building, designed by architect Daniel Burnham, still stands at 425 Dempster in Evanston, and now houses a Montessori school.

Hamid Drake

Hamid Drake was born in 1955 in Monroe, Louisiana, and his family moved to Evanston, Illinois when he was a child, just as an older musician from Monroe named Fred Anderson also moved to Evanston, with his family.

Hamilton University

The presence of a small church built in the parking lot had served to make the activity tax free due to federal and state laws, even though the church building had no pews; people in Evanston had never seen services there.

Hunter Hillenmeyer

Hillenmeyer is currently pursuing a Part-Time MBA program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Jeffrey Paul Smith

In November, 2011, Smith filed to run for representative in the newly redistricted 17th district of the Illinois General Assembly after Rep. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) announced he intended to run for Sen. Jeffrey Schoenberg's soon-to-be vacant state Senate seat.

Jesse Moren Bader

From 1937 onwards he attended all the major ecumenical gatherings related to the formation and establishment of the World Council of Churches including Oxford and Edinburgh (1937), Amsterdam (1948), Evanston (1954), New Delhi (1961) and the annual meetings of the World Council of Churches executive committee once it was set up in 1948.

Jessica Weber

Weber serves on the advisory boards of Aid for AIDS, the Fales Rare Book Library of New York University, the Medill School of Journalism’s Publication Program at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, the Japan Creators Association, and the Martina Arroyo Foundation.

Jocelyn Brando

Jocelyn and Marlon Brando and their sister Frances grew up mostly in the Midwest—in Omaha, Nebraska, Evanston and Libertyville, Illinois, though the family also spent time in California.

Ladd Arboretum

The first tree, a ginkgo, was planted by the Evanston Review in the memory of Edward Rixon Ladd (1883–1956), its founder, publisher, and editor.

Larry R. Hicks

Born in Evanston, Illinois, Hicks received a B.S. from the University of Nevada in 1965 and a J.D. from the University of Colorado in 1968.

Louis Iribarne

Stanisław Lem, The Chain of Chance, translated from the Polish by Louis Iribarne, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1975.

Matthew F. Hale

Beginning on July 2, 1999, Smith shot nine Orthodox Jews walking to and from their synagogues in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, killed two people, including former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, in Evanston, Illinois, and a 26-year-old Korean graduate student named Won-Joon Yoon who was shot as he was on his way to church in Bloomington, Indiana.

Orris E. Kelly

Reverend Kelly completed his AB degree at Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, Kansas in 1950 and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois in 1953.

Patten Gymnasium

It is named for James A. Patten, former Evanston mayor, philanthropist, commodities broker, and NU board of trustees president.

Resurrection Health Care

Prior to the merger, Resurrection Health Care's six hospitals were Holy Family Medical Center (Des Plaines, Illinois), Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago), Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago), Saint Francis Hospital (Evanston, Illinois), Saint Joseph Hospital (Chicago), and Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center (Chicago).

Robert Eisner

Following his death, the Roycemore School of Evanston established the Robert Eisner Distinguished Scholar Program in his memory.

Roko Belic

After graduating in 1989 from Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois, Belic attended the University of California at Santa Barbara where he studied studio arts and foreign languages.

Samter

Max Samter (1909, Berlin - 1999, Evanston), German-American physician

Seabury-Western Theological Seminary

It was formed in 1933 by a merger of Western Theological Seminary of Evanston (founded in 1883 in Chicago), and Seabury Divinity School of Faribault, Minnesota (founded in 1858).

Tam Spiva

Spiva graduated from the defunct Western Military Academy in Alton in Madison County, Illinois, near St. Louis and then Northwestern University in Evanston, near Chicago.

University of Denver

John Evans is the namesake of Evans Avenue (which bisects the DU campus and runs through the Denver metro area), Mount Evans (a 14,264 foot mountain visible from DU), and the city of Evanston, Illinois (the site of Northwestern University, founded by Evans prior to his founding of DU).

Vintage Vinyl

The most noteworthy example of this is when former Evanston resident John Cusack chose the store as the original filming location for the movie High Fidelity.

Vladimir Ipatieff

In the US, Ipatieff secured a research-focused chemistry professorship at Northwestern University, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston.

WCAS

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the largest of the eleven schools comprising Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, United States

Wyoming Army National Guard

When Wyoming became a state in 1890, constitutional provisions allowed for the formation of units in Buffalo, Evanston, Douglas, Green River, Rock Springs, Rawlins and Sheridan.