Evanston, Illinois

Evanston (formerly Ridgeville, Illinois) is a city on Lake Michigan located in Cook County, Illinois directly north of Chicago, east of Skokie, and south of Wilmette. The city was first settled in 1836, and as of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,239. Evanston is part of Chicago's affluent North Shore region.

People from Evanston

Famous Evanstonians include actors Charlton Heston, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Alicia (Lecy) Goranson, Michael Madsen, Jeremy Piven, and William Petersen, comedian Ruby Wax, drama critic Walter Kerr, Hall of Fame baseball player Freddie Lindstrom, Hall of Fame football player Paddy Driscoll, inventors Laurens Hammond, news anchor Charles Gibson, newspaper columnist Drew Pearson, politicians Charles Gates Dawes and Jim Kolbe, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, temperance advocate and suffragist Frances Willard, and musicians Michael Bard, Forrest Buchtel, Jr., David Burge, Jethro Burns, Frank Donaldson, Steve Goodman, Cecil Holden, Valerie LaMaar, Howard Levy, Junior Mance, Harvey Mandel, Paul Nebenzahl, Joel Erenberg, Fred Simon, Bobby Short, Grace Slick, Mark Skyer, Mike Skyer, and Eddie Vedder.

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Actors - Charlton Heston - John Cusack - Joan Cusack - Michael Madsen - Jeremy Piven - William Petersen - Ruby Wax - Walter Kerr - Freddie Lindstrom - Paddy Driscoll - Inventors - Laurens Hammond - Charles Gibson - Drew Pearson - Politicians - Charles Gates Dawes - Jim Kolbe - Donald Rumsfeld - Frances Willard - Musicians - David Burge - Frank Donaldson - Steve Goodman - Howard Levy - Bobby Short - Grace Slick - Eddie Vedder

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