North Shore (Chicago) facts for kids

Map of northeastern Illinois showing the North Shore and surrounding areas.

The North Shore is made up of many rich suburbs north of Chicago, Illinois. It borders the shores of Lake Michigan. These communities fall within suburban Cook County and Lake County.

Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, and Lake Bluff are thought to be the main members of the North Shore, as all are affluent communities that border the lake just north of Chicago.

Images for kids

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  Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore.

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  One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore Suburban. The image above is the title page of the first volume and shows the front door of the S.H. Gunder house at 6219 N. Sheridan Road, which today serves as the main building for the North Lakeside Cultural Center in Chicago. The canopy has been removed.

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  North Shore Line 1941 timetable cover

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  Chicago, as seen from the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston.

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  Bahá'í House of Worship, Wilmette, Illinois. The temple is the only Bahá'í House of Worship in America.