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Village
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1869
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Illinois
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Cook
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New Trier
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Council-manager
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President
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Edmund C Woodbury
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12,419
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1,2520
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up
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847 & 224
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1,230,000 ( 2007 )
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is a
Village located approximately 19 mi (30 km) north of downtown
Chicago in
Cook County ,
Illinois . It has a population of 12,419.
New Trier High School , a nationally renowned public school, is located in Winnetka.
The first houses were built in
1836 , the first school in
1856 . The village was incorporated in
1869 with a population of 450 by Charles Pack and Walter S. Gurnee, President of
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul And Pacific Railroad .
The name Winnetka is claimed to have been found in a book, meaning beautiful land in a local Native American language. However, no language has been found with a word anything resembling both Winnetka and the definition
{Link without Title} . Though a charming story, the name was most likely made up. Recently, Winnetka has been nicknamed "the land of bankers and lawyers".
The oldest house in Winnetka is the Schmidt-Burnham House. It was relocated in the 2003 from its original location on Tower Road to the Crow Island Woods.
- In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Winnetka. A plaque dedicated to him is on the Village Green, a park in the town, where he spoke.
- It is the childhood home of Donald Rumsfeld , the former US Secretary Of Defense .
- It is also the place of birth of actor Rock Hudson as well as rock/pop star artist Richard Marx .
- Winnetka was the setting for the 1990's television drama '' Sisters ''.
- Movies filmed in Winnetka include '''' (the McCallister's home) and '' Ocean's 12 '' (Danny and Tess Ocean's house that is supposed to be in New Haven, Connecticut ), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (Page's home) were also filmed in Winnetka.
- Winnetka lent its name to a short lived 1994 television series ''Winnetka Road''.
- Winnetka is also indirectly the namesake of Winnetka, California , a community in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California .
Winnetka is located at (42.106227, -87.73801).
Winnetka is located 198m (650ft) above
Sea Level and has a
Magnetic Declination of 3° 10' W.
According to the
United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 10.2
Km&2 (3.9
Mi&2 ). 9.9 km&
2 (3.8 mi&
2) of it is land and 0.2 km&
2 (0.1 mi&
2) of it (2.30%) is water.
The Winnetka Public Schools system (District 36) consists of three elementary schools and two middle schools. Hubbard Woods[http://www.winnetka36.org/hw/]
Crow Island School [http://www.winnetka36.org/ci/], and Samuel Sewall Greeley
Elementary Schools serve grades kindergarten through four. Students in fifth and sixth grades attend The Skokie School[http://www.winnetka36.org/sk/ . Seventh and eighth graders attend Washburne School,[http://www.winnetka36.org/cw/] named after educator Carleton Washburne.
Winnetka's schools were modeled after Washburne's educational philosophy in an experiment called the
Winnetka Plan . The town's schools continue to reflect his educational philosophy.
Winnetka is in
New Trier Township . Public school students who reside in Winnetka attend
New Trier High School for grades 9 through 12.
As of the
Census of 2000, there were 12,419 people, 4,162 households, and 3,433 families residing in the village. The
Population Density was 1,252.0/km&
2 (3,242.7/mi&
2). There were 4,310 housing units at an average density of 434.5/km&
2 (1,125.4/mi&
2). The racial makeup of the village was 96.29%
White , 0.25%
Hispanic or
Latino of any race.
There were 4,162 households out of which 47.2% had children under the age of 18, and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.98 and the average family size was 3.35.
In the village the population was spread out with 34.6% under the age of 18, 3.4% from 18 to 24, 21.5% from 25 to 44, 27.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 94.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.6 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $167,458, and the median income for a family was $200,000+. Males had a median income of $100,000+ versus $61,513 for females.
One of the more conservative suburbs of Chicago, George W. Bush received nearly 60% of the vote in Winnetka (2000 and 2004.)
U.S. Census data on Winnetka
