FYI...while Evanston is on the North Shore, it does NOT resemble the other nothern suburbs (I grew up there but went to private school a few burbs away)
There are some pretty funky and scary parts of Evanston. I don’t think my brother used the school bathroom at ETHS more than a handful of times in his 4 years there because of the gang and race related issues and tensions.
Don’t get me wrong, it can be a great school to get an education, but they grapple with poverty, disinterested parents and crime...they are a mini-Chicago public school
Evanston has wealth on the waterfront and a ghetto to the west (Janeway Avenue?). I haven’t been there in a decade, but assume its schizophrenic nature hasn’t changed. Reminds me alot of Englewood, NJ: wealthy limo libs on one side of the tracks, poor welfare-dependent Dems on the other.