[4] The community was within the large and undefined voting district, north of the then-existing Chicago city limits, known as Gross Point.

[3] The mail was received at Mulford's cabin, which had expanded to become a tavern[4] known as Ten-Mile House for its distance from Chicago on the Green Bay stage route.

[3] Ridgeville Township was organized as a civil township in approximately what are now the Lakeview, Uptown, Edgewater, and Rogers Park neighborhoods of Chicago, and also part of what is now Evanston,[citation needed] with the southern border in the Irving Park area[6] at Irving Park Avenue bordering the current Graceland Cemetery,[citation needed] and the northern border at what is now Central Street in Evanston, which at that time marked the southern boundary of land reserved to Archange Ouilmette.

[3][9] Later elected officials included Chicagoan Conrad Sulzer, the first known European settler in the Ravenswood area, as township collector,[10] and John Anderson, of what would later be called Andersonville, as highway commissioner.

The founding of the university and the extension of a railroad line that served it spurred rapid development in the Evanston community.

[8]: 251  The portion south of Devon Avenue[citation needed] became Lake View Township, and eventually part of Chicago.