Evanston, Illinois (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Nina Barrett is the owner of Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago."

"City of Night began as a letter to a friend in Evanston, Illinois."

"From El Paso, I had gone to Evanston outside Chicago—a serene green campus city—where I saw a friend I had met in El Paso when he was in the army."

"The face of the man who took me to his house in Evanston (and it was here that I had stopped on my way to New York, here that I had felt the restless compulsive anarchy those afternoons walking by the lake with my friend, now gone)."