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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...
...improvements would bring in a lot of riffraff from Kansas City." "It's a bodacious street," allows Mayor V.M. ("Doc") Dostal. After their day's work in K.C., the people of Leawood obviously want nothing more than to come home to their handsome houses in their manicured suburb and slam the door. They might as well put up a sign reading PRIVATE-KEEP...
There are other threats to the community. Because the suburb is so rigidly residential, it has no industrial tax base: one result is inadequate public services, including a wretched sewer system that would cost at least $1,000,000 to modernize. In a heavy rain the sewers back up into the prosperous residents' basements. In addition, there is what Mrs. Margaret Jordan, lawyer and city councilwoman, calls "the specter of Tomahawk Creek Reservoir"-a proposed federal flood-control project that would create recreational facilities open to nonresidents. Another city council member puts the dilemma of Leawood's future...
...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 here. There are so many kinds...
There is, clearly, a certain ambivalence in Evanston. Evanstonians consider themselves city dwellers: then again, they feel like suburbanites. Evanston is a city with the virtues of a suburb, or a suburb with the virtues of a city. Either way, it seems to be working...