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Wilmette

Illinois, United States
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Wilmette, village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Lying on Lake Michigan, it is a primarily residential suburb of Chicago, about 15 miles (24 km) north of downtown. Illinois and later Potawatomi Indians were early inhabitants of the area, which was visited by the French explorer Jacques Marquette in 1674. French Canadian fur trader Antoine Ouilmette and his wife, Archange, partly of Native American descent, built a cabin on the lakeshore in 1825. Four years later...

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