Editing Evanston, Illinois (section)

==Government==
{{See also|List of mayors of Evanston, Illinois}}
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The City of Evanston became sister cities with the [[Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv|Dnieprovsky District]] of the City of [[Kyiv]], Ukraine in 1988, and sister cities with [[Belize City|Belize City, Belize]] in 1992.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Evanston has a [[Council&ndash;manager government|council-manager]] system of government and is divided into nine wards, each of which is represented by an Alderman, or member of the Evanston City Council.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Evanston was heavily [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] in voter identification from the time of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] up to the 1960s. [[Richard Nixon]] carried it in the 1968 presidential election.<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Affluent Settled Evanston, Illinois | date = March 15, 1971 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904827,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081221203326/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904827,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = December 21, 2008 | magazine = Time | access-date = September 18, 2011}}</ref> The city began trending [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] in the 1960s, though it never elected a Democratic mayor until 1993.

In the 2012 presidential election, Democratic incumbent [[Barack Obama]] won 85% of Evanston's vote, compared to 13% for Republican challenger [[Mitt Romney]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Suburban Cook County Election Results, November 06, 2012 Presidential General Election|url=http://results1112.cookcountyclerk.com/summary.aspx?eid=110612|publisher=Cook County Clerk|access-date=April 14, 2017|archive-date=April 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415104026/http://results1112.cookcountyclerk.com/summary.aspx?eid=110612|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 2016 Democratic primary, [[Hillary Clinton]] received 54% of the votes of Evanston Democrats to [[Bernie Sanders]]' 45%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Suburban Cook County Election Results, March 15, 2016 Presidential Primary Election|url=http://results316.cookcountyclerk.com/Summary.aspx?eid=31516|publisher=Cook County Clerk|access-date=October 25, 2017|archive-date=October 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026111508/http://results316.cookcountyclerk.com/Summary.aspx?eid=31516|url-status=live}}</ref> During that year's general election, Clinton won 87% of the vote in Evanston, while Republican [[Donald Trump]] received just 7%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Suburban Cook County Election Results, November 08, 2016 Presidential General Election|url=http://results1116.cookcountyclerk.com/Detail.aspx?eid=110816&rid=11&vfor=1&twpftr=1|publisher=Cook County Clerk|access-date=April 14, 2017|archive-date=April 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415200327/http://results1116.cookcountyclerk.com/Detail.aspx?eid=110816&rid=11&vfor=1&twpftr=1|url-status=live}}</ref> Evanston's turnout for presidential elections has grown steadily since 2004, with 80% of registered voters voting in the 2016 general election.<ref>{{cite web|title=Post-Election Report 2016|url=http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/electiondata/Documents/PostElectionReport_110816.pdf|website=Cook County Clerk|access-date=April 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415200429/http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/electiondata/Documents/PostElectionReport_110816.pdf|archive-date=April 15, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 2020 presidential election, Democrat [[Joe Biden]] received 90% of the vote, while Republican Donald Trump received only 7%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://results1120.cookcountyclerkil.gov/summary.aspx?eid=110320 |title=Suburban Cook County Election Results. November 03, 2020 Presidential General Election|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228000037/https://results1120.cookcountyclerkil.gov/summary.aspx?eid=110320|date=February 28, 2021|archive-date=February 28, 2021 }}</ref>