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Wilmette

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Wilmette

Town in Cook County, northeast Illinois; population (1990) 26,700. It is situated on Lake Michigan and the North Shore Channel, 24 km/15 mi north of Chicago. It is an affluent residential community. Wilmette is the home of the Baha'i House of Worship (1921), the centre of the Baha'i faith in North America.

The town was named after Archange Ouilmette, the Potawatomi wife of the area's first European settler. She was granted land known as the Ouilmette Fields by the Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1829), on which the settlement was laid out (1869).



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