Western Springs
A village in Cook County, Illinois — population 13,274 as of 2020.
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NAACP Evanston Youth Council Get out the Vote event sparks dialogue on voting rights
The Robert Crown Community Center hosted the NAACP Evanston Youth Council’s Get Out the Vote event on Friday, designed to educate young people on the power of the ballot box and the importance of voting. Led by NAACP Youth Council members, ages 12 to 20, the presentation explored…
Community Groups & Organizations
Residents get preview of Mapping Black Evanston project
About 80 residents came out to the historic Lula B. Sherman United Methodist Church, 2214 Church St., on Saturday morning for a preview of the Mapping Black Evanston project that has been in the works for over a year. The Mapping Black Evanston project, a collaboration between…
Community Groups & Organizations
Irish playwrights use survivors’ words in ‘OCTOBER 7’ to show horrors, heroes
Northwestern University’s Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., will host a staged reading on Oct. 6 of the play, OCTOBER 7. Irish journalists, documentary filmmakers and playwrights Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, who are married, researched and wrote the play. Jeff Gurner…
Creatives & Arts
Theaster Gates bets on fine china
The famed Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.
Creatives & Arts
‘It never goes away’: Evanston native, ex-trooper’s first fatal crash drives his mission to teach teens
Almost 40 years later, Evanston native and former Illinois State Police Sgt. Doug Whitmore still vividly remembers the first fatal crash he responded to. “It was a 16-year-old girl. She was on I-294 near Willow Road, driving a red BMW convertible with a black top. She missed her…
Community Groups & Organizations
New Evanston resident Daniel King finds thrills, wit while directing ‘Murder’ at Oil Lamp Theater
Theater director Daniel King moved to Evanston from Rogers Park less than a year ago, and he is enjoying the residential feel of his new neighborhood. It’s the perfect location for him and his husband, Spencer Donovan, both of whom are heavily involved in the Chicagoland theater…
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Western Springs by the numbers
- Area
- 2.78 sq mi (7.21 km²)
- Median age
- 41.6
- Households
- 4,471
- Persons per household
- 3
- Median household income
- $230,255
- Median house value
- $739,400
- Office
- DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
- Address
- 740 HILLGROVE AVE, WESTERN SPRINGS, IL 60558