Evanston Historical Information

• A Brief History of Evanston
• Evanston Review
  A guide to finding articles in the Evanston Review.
• Evanston History Clipping Files Index- Index to the EPL Evanston history clipping file. Also indexes several books on Evanston history.
• Evanston Street Names
  A list explaining for whom the streets in Evanston are named.
• The Evanston History Center
  A private, non-profit educational and cultural institution established in 1898 to preserve and share Evanston history. The Center is located in the Charles Gates Dawes House at 225 Greenwood.
• Evanston:Its Land and Its People
  History of Evanston from its founding through 1900, written by Viola Crouch Reeling and published by the Fort Dearborn Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution in 1928.
• Evanston Village High School Directory
This directory of faculty students of Evanston Village High School was edited by William Grant Webster and published in 1907. The records of the Village High School were lost when it merged into Evanton Township High School. This directory seeks to fill in the gaps.
• Evanston Public Library Lore
  Highlights of the first 125 years of the Evanston Public Library.
• Evanston Women's History Project blog
  The Evanston Women's History Project is an ongoing initiative to document significant women in Evanston's past and present.
• Evanston Women's History Books
  Resources in the Evanston Public Library by and about prominent local women 
• NPR Stories About Evanston
• Postcards of Evanston
• Radical Woman in a Classic Town: Frances Willard of Evanston Virtual Exhibit
• Shorefront
  African-American History on Chicago’s Northshore
• Northwestern University: Evanston Campus Framework Plan
  Northwestern's framework to guide the future development of the Evanston campus.
• Northwestern University Archives Online Finding Aids
  Online index to a wealth of local history materials held at Northwestern. Click the link to "Northwestern Related" for files on District 65, Frances Willard, and various Evanston activists and organizations.
• This is Evanston
  A 1955 guide to Evanston's history and community resources from the League of Women Voters.
• Walter Burt Adams : Evanston Through the Eyes of an Artist
  An online exhibit of 24 paintings by local artist Walter Burt Adams. The exhibit is a joint project of the Evanston Public Library and the Evanston History Center.
• WPA Art in Evanston
  Photos and descriptions of the Depression era Works Progress Administration sculptures and murals in Evanston