The school and the stores that began to cluster around this intersection defined the community's main business area.

Nearby, a real-estate developer, with a vision of the Arc de Triomphe area of Paris, laid out a star-shaped park with eight streets radiating from it.

The location and layout of the park was intended to be the center of town, but 95th St and Kedzie Ave. later proved a more accurate midpoint.

Within five years, the village had become a recreation center that attracted hundreds of Chicagoans to its picnic groves, beer gardens, and dance halls.

Realizing the current and future potential of its strong business district, and in order to avoid annexation during the serious economic crisis, The Village of Evergreen Park declared its independence and was incorporated on December 20, 1893.

[5] The final decision to incorporate as its own entity separate from the City of Chicago was made by a 41 out of 50 approval by village residents.

[7] Evergreen Park is also known as the "Village of Churches" because of its thirteen established religious congregations within close proximity.

[7] On June 17, 1950, Little Company of Mary Hospital, located at 2800 W. 95th St. in Evergreen Park, was the site of the world's first successful organ transplant.

Dr. Richard Lawler, MD, an exceptional surgeon at Cook County Hospital, led a team of doctors that performed the hazardous and highly controversial operation.

In order to prepare for the experimental procedure, Lawler spent several years researching and practicing various organ transplants and used canines as the testing subjects.

He concluded through his research that the most probable means of achieving success for organ transplantation would involve a human kidney from a post-mortem donor.

Realizing he had the opportunity "get it all started," Lawler decided to attempt the medical first on a chronically ill patient in dire need of a new kidney.

The recipient of the first successful organ transplantation was Ruth Tucker, a 44-year-old Chicago-area woman who suffered from terminal polycystic kidney disease.

By the 1970s, with organ transplantation evolving into a widely recognized life-saving necessity, Lawler and his entire team earned the much-deserved respect from the medical community, and their reputation healed.

In 1952, real estate developer Arthur Rubloff debuted the Evergreen Plaza in the heart of the southwest Chicago suburbs.

[16] The suburb is surrounded by the city of Chicago on three of its sides, while Oak Lawn and Hometown border it on the west.

According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Evergreen Park has a total area of 3.16 square miles (8.18 km2),all land.

Pace and CTA provide bus service on multiple routes connecting Evergreen Park to destinations across the Southland.