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The Edward R. Ladd Arboretum is an arboretum located at 2024 McCormick Boulevard Evanston Illinois occupying 23 acres (93000 m²) in a narrow three-quarter mile (1.2 km) stretch between McCormick Boulevard and the North Shore Channel on land leased from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.The first tree a ginkgo was planted by the Evanston Review in the memory of Edward Rixon Ladd (1883–1956) its founder publisher and editor.