Claim: David Schwimmer started a university based in Evanston, Illinois.
Evidence: In 1988 , he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and speech.
Northwestern University -LRB- NU -RRB- is a private research university based in Evanston , Illinois , with campuses in Chicago , Illinois , and Doha , Qatar , and academic programs/facilities in Washington , D.C. , and San Francisco , California.