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EVANSTON
, a See also:city of See also:Cook See also:county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., on the See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Michigan, 12 m
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N. of See also:Chicago
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Pop
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(1900) 19,259, of whom 4441 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 U
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S. See also:census) 24,978
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It is served by the Chica,;o & See also:North-Western, and the Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St See also:Paul See also:railways, and by two electric lines
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The city is an important residential suburb of Chicago
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In 1908 the Evanston public library had 41,430 volumes
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In the city are the See also:College of Liberal Arts (1855), the See also:Academy (186o), and the See also:schools of See also:music (1895) and See also:engineering (1908) of North-western University, co-educational, chartered in 1851, opened in 1855, the largest school of the Methodist Episcopal See also: Enjoying the privileges of the university, though actually See also:independent of it, are the Garrett Biblical Institute (Evanston Theological Seminary), founded in 1855, situated on the university campus, and probably the best-endowed Methodist Episcopal theological seminary in the See also:United States, and affiliated with the Institute, the See also:Norwegian Danish Theological school; and the See also:Swedish Theological Seminary, founded at See also:Galesburg in .1870, removed to Evanston in 1882, and occupying buildings on the university campus until 1907, when it removed to Orrington See also:Avenue and Noyes See also:Street . The Cumnock School of See also:Oratory, at Evanston, also co-operates with the university . By the See also:charter of the university the See also:sale of intoxicating liquors is forbidden within 4 M. of the university campus . The manufacturing importance of the city is slight, but is rapidly increasing . The See also:principal manufactures are wrought See also:iron and See also:steel See also:pipe, bakers' machinery and bricks . In 1905 the value of the factory products was $2,550,529, being an increase of 207'3% since 190o . ; In Evanston are the See also:publishing offices of the See also:National Woman's See also:Christian See also:Temperance See also:Union . Evanston was incorporated as a See also:town in 1863 and as a See also:village in 1872, and was chartered as a city in 1892 . The villages of North Evanston and See also:South Evanston were annexed to Evanston. in 1874 and 1892 respectively . |
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