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Evanston

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

John E. Coons
John E. Coons*
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Northwestern University
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Evanston, a large suburb north of Chicago, has a population of 80,000 of which 11.5% is Negro. It borders Chicago on the south, Skokie on the west, the village of Wilmette on the north, and Lake Michigan on the east. The median family income in 1960 was $9,193 (the median for the lowest census tract was $5,605 and for the highest $17,250); yet Evanston comprises the entire income spectrum, with almost 7% of its population in families with annual incomes of $3,000 or less. Evanston is significantly above the national average in education—the median number of school years completed being 12.8 (the lowest tract averaged 9.6 and the highest was over 16). Twenty-seven per cent of Evanston's adult population are college graduates.

Type
Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , November 1967 , pp. 14 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by the Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

Editors' Note: This is a condensation by the staff of the Law & Society Review of a larger study (“Illinois Elementary District 65,” 54 pp.), conducted in 1965 for the United States Office of Education.

References

1. Raw data listing the school, grade, sex, race, birthdate, and location by city block, of each child in the system was fed into a computer. These pupil data were keyed to geographic block locations and transferred, with school capacity and location data, to a computer file suitable for generating TV-style displays on the computer system. Displays and tabulations of school assignments were calculated on the basis of minimizing total pupil-travel distance under various conditions suggested by the commission. Many plans were devised and it was found that eliminating Foster School, maintaining a Negro enrollment of up to 25% in all other schools, and busing of otherwise unassigned children resulted in only eleven unassigned students.

2. As of August 1967, it was estimated that 450 students would be bused, at a cost of $66,000.