21 Facts About Wilmette Illinois

Wilmette Illinois has a well-developed urban forest and since 1983 has enjoyed "Tree City" status.

Wilmette Illinois was a forested area with high bluffs along its lakeshore.

Wilmette Illinois was the daughter of Pierese Chevallier, a French fur trader, and his Potawatomi wife, Chopa.

Wilmette Illinois was among the earliest recorded residents of Chicago, having settled there prior to its official incorporation.

Several large owners of land within the former reservation saw the opportunity to develop a community, and offered to build a station at their own expense if the railway would agree to stop in Wilmette Illinois The offer was accepted, and in 1869, the Chicago and Milwaukee Railway began service to the station.

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Wilmette Illinois was home to a variety of social and literary clubs.

North Shore Channel, which terminates in Wilmette Illinois, was a crucial part of the huge engineering and sanitary project to reverse the course of the Chicago River in order to carry Chicago's sewage away from Lake Michigan.

Wilmette Illinois law stipulated that an organized Park District had the authority to, without any cost, take possession of any man-made land for use as parkland.

In 1922 the village adopted the "Plan of Wilmette Illinois, " which outlined a vision for its future that included open spaces along Green Bay Road and the elevation of the railroad tracks to provide unobstructed flow of traffic between the east and west parts of the village.

Across Sheridan Road from the Baha'i property, Wilmette Illinois Harbor experienced a plethora of changes in the twenties.

Not only did Wilmette Illinois start pumping its own water, but by the year 1938 Wilmette Illinois was selling water to Glenview.

The USS Wilmette Illinois was a naval ship that had been commissioned in 1918 and was constructed by retrofitting the former SS Eastland, a passenger ship which in July 1915 rolled over in the Chicago River resulting in 884 deaths.

In 1975 Wilmette Illinois built a new structure to replace its 1874 railroad station.

Wilmette Illinois is governed by a village board composed of six trustees and a president.

In 2004, Wilmette was one of the first localities in Illinois to enact a ban on smoking in all public spaces, including bars and restaurants.

Wilmette Illinois is home to Catholic high schools Loyola Academy and Regina Dominican High School.

Wilmette Illinois is home to the Baha'i House of Worship, the continental Baha'i House of Worship for North America and presently the only one in the United States, as well as the administrative offices for the Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly.

Wilmette Illinois Theater is a two-screen multiplex located on Central Avenue in one of its downtowns.

Oldest existing church building in Wilmette Illinois is the First Congregational Church designed in the Tudor Revival style.

Wilmette Illinois contains three public beaches, a large one at the 60 acre Gilson Park and two smaller ones at Langdon Park and the Elmwood Dunes Preserve.

Wilmette Illinois Curling Club won the 1985 United States Men's Curling Championship.