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Stone Park, IL, Richard Harris(
Authored Entry
) ...remained the site of the Italian Cultural Center, 79 percent of the population was Hispanic in 2000....
...the most distinctive histories. It boasted a population of 636 and an area of 0.4 square miles when...
...rapidly during the 1950s and 1960s, reaching a population of 4,429 by 1970 and growing to 5,127 by...
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Jews, Irving Cutler(
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) ...270,000 Jews (about 9 percent of the city's population) were outnumbered only in New York and...
...only about 30 percent of the entire Jewish population remained within city limits. Chicago's first...
...constituted over 80 percent of Chicago's Jewish population. They settled initially in one of the...
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Rosemont, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...5,687 hotel rooms in 14 hotels. The 2000 population was just 4,224, of whom 79 percent were white,...
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Uruguayans, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...leaders estimated a slowly increasing population of roughly 500 Uruguayans in Chicago, with an...
...Chicago. The bulk of Chicago's Uruguayan population arrived starting in 1967 and continuing through...
...along with the city's growing Hispanic population. Many eventually started their own businesses—...
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Washington Heights, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...many whites are running scared. ” By 1970, the population of Washington Heights peaked at 36,540, 75...
...class character, as over three-fourths of the population own homes and incomes are well above the...
...African Americans constituted 12 percent of a population of 29,793. Real-estate firms practiced...
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Highland, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...Park, was dedicated in 1981. By 1980, the population reached a high of 25,935, and then dropped to...
...Highlands was incorporated in 1910, with a population of 304 people. In 1914 the first bank, the...
...as a theater. In the forties, Highland's population nearly doubled, and it exploded in the fifties,...
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Aurora, IL, Catherine Bruck(
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) ...to create 20,000 jobs. In 2000 Aurora's population was 32 percent Hispanic and 11 percent black. The...
...of the Fox River Valley area, has a population of over 110,000. It began in 1834 (incorporated in...
...was much larger both geographically and in population than the west side, the river now divides the...
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Hegewisch, Erik Gellman(
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) ...1960s, Hegewisch has balanced out some of its population losses with the relocation of a significant...
...the closure of Wisconsin Steel in 1980, the population declined because of layoffs. However, the...
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Uptown, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...a distinct community area , halving Uptown's population. Homeowners in Buena Park (the area between...
...halfway houses. The changes in Uptown's economy, population, and housing stock drew the attention of...
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Albany Park, Timothy B. Neary(
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) ...enjoy the bucolic environs. As Chicago's population exploded in the 1870s and 1880s, the suburban...
...schools , and public parks opened. Albany Park's population reached a high of 56,692 in 1940. After...
...Albany Park into economic and social decline. Population decreased, homes and stores lay vacant, and...
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East Side, Kristina M. Bas and David Bensman(
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) ...process of Americanization influenced the population. The attempted entry of African Americans into...
...World War II. Between 1980 and 2000 the Hispanic population grew from 13 to 68 percent, and the area...
...East Side, decimating the local economy. The population dropped by several thousand between 1970 and...
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Grand Boulevard, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...of Chicago's wealthy built elegant mansions. The population of the Grand Boulevard community grew...
...Boulevard were 94.6 percent of the total population of 87,005. Like other areas of rapid racial...
...1990s, Grand Boulevard contained the densest population of public housing in the country. Even with...
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Palestinians, Louise Cainkar(
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) ...represented less than 1 percent of the city's population. By the 1990s, Palestinians had maintained...
...suburbs, bringing significant Palestinian populations to Burbank , Oak Lawn , Hickory Hills ,...
...Palestinians formed about 60 percent of the Arab population of the Chicago metropolitan area....
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Chicago's Social Geography, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...next half century as the city's and region's population continued to grow in number and diversity...
...During the 1880s, one fact about Chicago's population was indisputable: it was growing dramatically....
...Between 1880 and 1890, the city's population more than doubled, climbing from 503,165 to 1,099,850....
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Washington Park Subdivision, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Washington Park Subdivision and the rest of Woodlawn, while most of the white population moved out....
...In 1950, over 99 percent of the subdivision's population was black....
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Winthrop Harbor, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...revenues for state and village governments. The population of Winthrop Harbor has always been small...
...Lake County towns. The village did experience an increase in population, however, during the 1990s....
...Between 1990 and 2000 the population of Winthrop Harbor grew from 6,240 to 6,670, as the area became...
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Chicago Heights, IL, Dominic Candeloro(
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) ...progressed rapidly. Chicago Heights boasted a population of 19,653 in 1920. Italian , Polish ,...
...became less reliable as well. The diverse population of Chicago Heights peaked at 40,900 in 1970 and...
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Hoboes, Chad Heap(
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) ...mitigated a temporary upsurge in the transient male population, but these male-oriented programs...
...offered little assistance to the growing population of women hoboes in Depression-era Chicago....
...World War, as a more stationary homeless population replaced the hoboes of West Madison Street, the...
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New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...New Lenox remained a small community, with a population in 1950 of 1,235 people, 17 of whom were...
...village and the surrounding metropolitan area; the population had increased to nearly 3,000, with 16...
...of the twentieth century, the village's population boomed, doubling during the 1980s to 9,627, and...
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Roseland, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...north and the stockyards to the west. Its population grew, most often by additional Dutch settlers...
...and other industries shaped Roseland's population and politics. The 1894 Pullman Strike created a...
...jobs. The virtually complete turnover of population meant that community institutions that had...
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