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6 unusual facts about Evanston Township High School


Evanston Township High School

Outdoor facilities include a new track, as well as a FieldTurf stadium, baseball and soccer fields and 18 tennis courts.

Near the school is the Edible Acre urban farming project, initiated by The Talking Farm, which is run with the help of ETHS volunteers during the growing season.

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.

The Talking Farm

In 2008, the Edible Acre Pilot Project was initiated at Evanston Township High School and became fully operational in 2010, providing locally grown produce to be sold at mini-markets around the city.

Willie May

May became the head coach of the track and field team at Evanston Township High School in 1975 and continued in that position through the 2006 season.

WLUP-FM

WLUP's first call letters in the 1950s were WEHS, which was originally owned by Evanston Township High School in the 1920s.


Clint Frank

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

Steve Pink

He is an Evanston Township High School, Columbia College Chicago, and University of California-Berkeley alumnus (graduating in 1989 with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies), and a contemporary of John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, and D.V. DeVincentis.


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