What is the history of Evanston, Illinois?
Evanston was created out of the larger geographic unit which was called “Grosse Pointe Territory” in the 1830’s and retitled Ridgeville in 1850. After being chosen as the home for Northwestern University, the city was incorporated in 1863, and named after John Evans (governor)John Evans, the University’s founder. During the 1960s Northwestern University changed the city’s shoreline with a 74 acre (300,000 m sq) lakefill. Today, the city is home to Northwestern University and other educational institutions as well as headquarters of Alpha Phi International women’s fraternity, Rotary International, the LekotekNational Lekotek Center, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Evanston is also the birthplace of Tinkertoys, auto racingautomobile racing, and (allegedly) the ice cream sundae. Evanston is commonly referred to as Etown Source:
