EVANSTON, a beautiful residential city of Cook county, Ill., U.S.A., on Lake Michigan, adjoining Chicago on the north. It is served by the Chicago and North Western, the Chicago, Milwau kee, St. Paul and Pacific, and the Chicago, North Shore and Mil waukee railways. The population was 37,234 in 192o, of whom 6,771 were foreign-born white and 2,522 were negroes, and was in 193o by the Federal census. Manufactures, though relatively unimportant, are increasing and in 1925 the output amounted to $13,647,674. The assessed valuation of property subject to taxation (not including the large exempt holdings of educational institutions) was $28,480,06o in 1926. The city grew up around Northwestern university (Methodist Episcopal; incor porated 1851) which in 1855 was located on the lake shore 12m. N. of the heart of Chicago. The campus now covers 75ac.; the enrolment (including the departments in Chicago) is about io, 000 ; the endowment is over $14,000,000; the Dyche stadium, on the 12ac. athletic field, accommodates 45,00o spectators. The pro fessional schools of medicine, law and dentistry are in Chicago. Evanston is also the seat of three Methodist Episcopal theological schools: the Garrett Biblical institute 0855), the Norwegian Danish Theological seminary (187o) and the Wesley academy and Theological seminary (organized in Galesburg in 187o) ; and of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college, founded in Chicago in 1886. It was the home of Frances E. Willard, and the publishing offices of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union are here. It was chartered as a town in 1863 ; as a city in 1892. The population had reached 19,259 in 1 goo and was almost doubled in the next 20 years. Territory has been annexed from time to time, until the area of the city is 7.57 sq. miles.