Winnetka, Illinois

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• Updated 12/4: Bank robbery suspect arrested
  

  Arlington Heights police arrested a suspect fleeing a bank robbery this afternoon.

• Updated 12/3: District 74 postpones childcare center verdict
  

  Staff and supporters of the Children's Care and Development Center will wait at least one more month to find out if the private center, which has provided care for newborns through pre-kindergartners in rented ...

• Updated 11/28: Harwood Heights to dedicate Lawrence Streetscape Dec. 3
  

  Mayor Margaret Fuller has issued an invitation on behalf of herself and the Village Board of Harwood Heights to a ribbon cutting ceremony, to be held at 11 a.m. Dec.

• Author offers advice to kids on perseverance
  

  Ally Carter writes fiction about super-smart teens training to be spies, so the question put to her recently by a St.

• Flags get sendoff from New Trier VFW Post
  

  New Trier VFW Post 4831 and Boy Scout Troop 20 and Cub Scout Pack 20 disposed of torn American Flags by burning them at the Village Green in Winnetka Nov.

• Chicago Defies the Second Amendment
  

  Since the Supreme Court upheld the individual right to own guns last summer, one municipality after another with handgun bans has faced reality.

• Updated 11/27: Teen dead, four injured in stabbing, crash
  

  A teenager is dead and four other people are reportedly hospitalized after a stabbing and traffic crash in Stone Park early Thursday.

• Updated 11/25: Police alert continues on NW Side for suspect luring young children
  

  Chicago police on the Far Northwest Side were taking a "better safe than sorry" approach last Friday, following a report of a man who drove up to young girls outside a local elementary school in Edison Park, ...

• Updated 11/24: Lincolnwood student found dead
  

  A 19-year-old Lincolwood student found dead in a fraternity house at Illinois Institute of Technology Saturday died accidentally after inhaling carbon dioxide in an apparent attempt to become intoxicated, ...

• Lincoln Trio hits the road
  

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• Winnetka repeals handgun ban
  

  A north suburb's 20-year-old ban on handguns has been repealed. The Winnetka Village Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to end its ban on gun possession.

• Winnetka Repeals Handgun Ban Over Protests
  

  Nov 19, 2008 8:56 am US/Central WINNETKA, Ill. An emotional night inside the Winnetka Village Council chamber as residents pleaded with council members to keep a 20-year old handgun ban in place.

• Updated 11/10: Man apparently shoots self, dies at police station
  

  A Winnetka man died Tuesday afternoon after suffering an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at the north suburban Northfield police station, authorities said.

• Teens from Loyola and New Trier work with teens in Haiti
  

  Sixteen Teens from Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka, travel to Sassier, Haiti for a 9-day visit to St.

• Updated 11/14: New Trier Caucus nominees named
  

  The New Trier Township High School District #203 Board of Education Caucus has slated four candidates for the School Board election in April 2009.

• Updated 11/14: Winnetka Parks candidates named
  

  The Winnetka Caucus announced its candidates to fill four open positions on the Parks Board.

• Updated 11/11: Winnetka may amend gun ordinance
  

  Winnetka officials could decide whether to amend the village ordinance on handguns at a Nov.

• Updated 11/11: Winnetka, Northfield schools score high
  

  Test scores for 2007 went up slightly for Winnetka District 36 schools compared with 2006, and Sunset Ridge District 29 had a few ups and downs, including an 8-point drop in seventh-grade reading and a 5-point ...

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City Description

Winnetka is an affluent village located approximately 19 mi (30 km) north of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. It has a population of 12,419. Winnetka is located at 42°6′22″N 87°44′16″W / 42.10611, -87.73778 (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 3.9 square miles (10.2 km²), of which, 3.8 square miles (9.9 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (2.30%) is water. Winnetka's streets are lined with multi million dollar homes and historic oaks. The first houses were built in 1836. That year Erastus Patterson and his family arrived from Vermont and opened a tavern to service passengers on the Green Bay Trail post road. The village was first subdivided in 1854 by Charles Peck and Walter S. Gurnee, President of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. Winnetka's first school opened in 1856. The town was incorporated in 1869 with a population of 450. 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

City Contained By:

• Cook County
• Illinois

City Contains:

• The Wayside
• Crow Island School

City Featured in Films:

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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