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TIME'S Sam Iker lives in Wilmette and works in Chicago. Directly in between lies Evanston, which he explored for this portrait...
MANY Chicagoans talk of the suburb of Evanston as the straitlaced capital of the North Shore-national headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the stodgy bastion of proper matrons and upright WASP gentlemen, all of them scarcely more liberal than the Chicago Tribune's late Colonel Robert R. McCormick. In fact, as City Planner Richard Carter says, Evanston is "a microcosm of a larger city, diversified in income, ethnically, racially and every other way." It ranks high in affluence: a $12,200 a year median income in 1968. Yet Evanston's 80,000 population includes...
...blur, as it does already along the northeast corridor from Boston to Washington. In these spreading suburbs, in all their diverse forms, will come a further test of American democracy. The auguries are good: the Harris survey points to a high incidence of civic concern, and the example of Evanston indicates that the combination of civic concern with a manageable governmental unit can work very well indeed. Suburbia may never re-create the New England town meeting, but it could be the locus of a new localism that will succeed in allowing its citizens to reassert some control over their...
...ethnic groups have combined with another new kind of migrant to change Evanston from a Republican Carcassonne into a city that Nixon barely carried in 1968, and Adlai Stevenson III won last November. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, younger, activist families have moved in, attracted by Evanston's lack of resemblance to a caricature suburb. Nancy Sheck moved with her husband, a printing executive, and two young sons from Chicago's South Side to Evanston four years ago. "It is the only suburb that allows for individuality," she says. "There aren't the same pressures for conformity...
Aside from the recession, though, the U.S. faith in college may be undergoing a subtle change-a creeping disenchantment with going to college at all. Many high school students seem to agree with seniors like Judy Hsia, 17, who attends Evanston (Ill.) High School. She is deliberately running the risk of not applying to any "safety" colleges. "If I don't make my first choices," she says, "I can always do something else for a year. There's no point in going to any college just for the sake of going. One of my brother's friends...