City of Evanston tax parcels with PIN, landuse, and a link to the Cook County Property Tax Portal.

The City of Evanston is divided into nine wards. One councilmember is elected to represent each ward.

The City of Evanston has inventoried and maintains over 34,000 trees located on City property and in the parkways.

The 18 tracts from the 2010 Census within the City of Evanston.

A Special Service Area (SSA) is defined by Illinois State Statute as a contiguous area within a municipality or county in which special services are provided in addition to those services provided generally throughout the municipality or county. Special services include things like landscaping, advertising, public art, and extra garbage collections. The special services are paid from revenues collected from taxes levied or imposed upon property within that area.

The City of Evanston's local historic districts consist of the Northeast, Ridge, Lakeshore, and Woman's Christian Temperance Union historic districts.

The Evanston Police Department divides the City of Evanston into eight patrol beats.

The City of Evanston has just over 17,000 primary site addresses. This data does not include sub-units such as apartments, condominiums, or suites.

The Zoning Code is located in Title 6 of the Municipal City Code. The Zoning Code promotes the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, general welfare, objectives and policies of the comprehensive general plan. As adopted and amended by the Evanston City Council, the Zoning Code establishes and regulates buildings and building setbacks along streets, alleys, property lines, use of lot areas, parking and loading, and the areas of open space between and among surrounding buildings.