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4 unusual facts about Wilmette


George Bon Salle

A 6'8" forward, he starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, before playing at the University of Illinois.

John K. Edmunds

Edmunds was called as patriarch of the Chicago Stake (since renamed the Wilmette Illinois Stake) as well as a member of the General Church Board charged with implementing the new Home Teaching program.

Milt Ghee

Born in Wilmette, Illinois, Ghee attended Oak Park High School before enrolling at Dartmouth College.

Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas

One of the quotes from this Tablet, "The source of all learning is the knowledge of God, exalted be His glory" was chosen by Shoghi Effendi to adorn one of the doors on the House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.


Marcus Jordan

Marcus Jordan originally played high school basketball with his older brother Jeffrey Jordan at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois.

Robert L. Short

He subsequently engaged in graduate studies in Systematic Theology at Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University, and settled in Wilmette, Illinois, where he and Kay raised three children.

Saint-Wenceslas, Quebec

The village church in Saint-Wenceslas was designed by Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois, a local architect who also designed a Bahá'í House of Worship in the town of Wilmette, USA.

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.


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