BJJ in Wilmette

Wilmette is a North Shore village immediately north of Evanston along Lake Michigan, with one local academy — **Staley Martial Arts, Carlson Gracie North Shore**. As the name suggests, this is the North Shore's flagship **Carlson Gracie** affiliate, putting Wilmette on the lineage map disproportionate to its population. The cluster of Carlson Gracie rooms across the North Shore (Glenview's The Academy a few minutes inland, plus Lakeside in Chicago itself) gives practitioners on this stretch of lakefront direct access to the dominant Chicago lineage. Evanston's three independents are five minutes south, and Northbrook sits a similar drive north.