United Methodist Home & Services, 1406 W Winona St, Chicago, IL 60640, US

The Evanshire Presbyterian Church began in a storefront location on the corner of Niles Center Road and Church Street when the area was still a prairie. It was 1954, and a dozen Skokie families who were looking for a home church had accepted the invitation of a seminary student to begin a new fellowship. No one is quite sure where the 'Evanshire' part of the name comes from, but the congregation is alive and well all these years later, having moved far beyond the storefront and into the Skokie establishment.