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East Side, Kristina M. Bas and David Bensman(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
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) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Shopping Districts and Malls, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...of reminding the city's end-of-the-millennium population of the street's glories at the turn of the...
...in large part, to one or another ethnic population. By the 1920s, when Marshall Field's opened...
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Chinese, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...other migrants from the West Coast, and the population grew steadily, from 172 in 1880 to 1,179 in...
...still constituted less than 6 percent of the population. The severe shortage of women made normal...
...1990 census showing the city of Chicago's Chinese population to be over 23,000 and the 2000 census...
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DuPage County, Steph McGrath(
Authored Entry
) ...for agricultural use. By 2000 the county's population had surpassed 900,000. Naperville, now DuPage...
...and other products, which helped to sustain Chicago's population and industry and brought wealth and...
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Dutch, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...their high point as a percentage of the population in the earliest stages of their migration....
...groups, though by 1920, Roseland's Dutch population had increased to approximately 8,750, making it...
...for less than 1 percent of Chicago's total population by this time. Twentieth-century immigration...
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Annexation, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...and passed Philadelphia to become second in population. That annexation indicates why some suburbs...
...retained theirs. The rapid growth of urban populations and technology in the late nineteenth century...
...cost-effective, the new technologies required populations much larger than most suburbs were likely...
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Indians, Vinay Lal(
Authored Entry
) ...element that cements Chicago's diverse Indian population into a more cohesive identity. The growing...
...years later by their families. The Indian population has grown steadily, though the increase owes...
...at universities remains large, but a working-class population is also emerging. As in other large...
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Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity, David R. Roediger(
Authored Entry
) ...Yards area. Their hope was to draw the immigrant population into bloody reprisals against African...
...mixed stockyards and garment factories, threw populations together promiscuously. Neighborhoods did...
...immigrant neighborhoods, often witnessed population changes and heard masses preached in both the...
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Portage Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Olympic team trials in 1972. By 1990 the population had decreased to 56,513 and consisted mainly of...
...with an indoor pool, and basketball courts by 1989. By 2000 population had rebounded to 65,340....
...dwellers flocked to the community. By 1940, its population had risen to 66,357. Poor drainage that...
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Northeastern Illinois University, June Sochen(
Authored Entry
) ...the greater Chicago area; its diverse student population, representing over 40 ethnic groups, has...
...holding jobs. Sixty-two percent of the student population is female, with 19 percent Hispanic, 12...
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Ukrainian Village, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...1930 estimates placed the Chicago Ukrainian population between 25,000 and 30,000, and the majority...
...of the twentieth century depleted the Ukrainian population. By 1990, only 2,500 people living in the...
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