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Shopping Districts and Malls, Larry Bennett(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Woodlawn, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...who could afford to, moved out: Woodlawn's population declined from a high of 81,279 in 1960 to...
...Dutch farmers who arrived in the 1850s. The population hovered between 500 and 1,000 until 1890....
...and few commercial attractions to support a population that was 89 percent African American. In...
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Religious Institutions, Virginia Lieson Brereton(
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) ...services or who belonged to portions of the population almost universally despised or feared—drug...
...time schooling and the dispersion of their population to the suburbs, have closed parochial schools...
...the dispersal and mobility of suburban populations has often made institution building difficult and...
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River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Altogether, this gave River Grove an estimated population of 200, four-fifths of whom were German ....
...church all were erected within the decade. Population rose to 484 in 1920 and by 1930 was at 2,741....
...border, opened in 1964. By 2000 River Grove's population had climbed to 10,668, with many of Irish ,...
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Schererville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
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) ...Hart. About 25 families constituted the population, the majority German Catholics. Other railroads...
...and the junction's traffic grew. The town's population exceeded 700 persons. Like its neighbors to...
...of the twentieth century. In 1960 the town's population totaled 2,875 persons; in 1970 the census...
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Stickney, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...the 1950s. By the late 1930s Stickney's population stood at about 2,000, and the town was known more...
...its taverns than anything else. Stickney's population increased after World War II , reaching 6,239...
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Berkeley, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...newcomers, the village of Berkeley incorporated in 1924. The population growth of the early 1900s...
...paled by comparison to the population boom Berkeley experienced after World...
...War II when the village population tripled from 1,882 in 1950 to 5,792 in 1960. At the same time,...
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West Town, Steven Essig(
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) ...Town has long sustained a strikingly diverse population mix. Most of the area east of Wood Street...
...American percentage of the community area population stood at a solid 10 percent during the last two...
...students, and other younger “bohemian” populations drew more affluent residents, particularly in the...
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Wheaton, IL, Thomas O. Kay(
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) ...formally incorporated in 1859, and by 1880 the population approached 1,000. The community became the...
...many new congregations were formed as the population of the community increased rapidly over the...
...12. Additional grammar schools were built as the population increased: Holmes, Whittier, and Lowell,...
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Zion, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...and low level of employment in Zion City, the population increased steadily throughout the century....
...there had been only a small African American population in Zion City through much of the twentieth...
...blacks made up nearly 30 percent of Zion's population. In 1987 the Illinois chapter of American...
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Buffalo Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Long Island's Levittown, entered the market. Population escalated with large subdivisions such as...
...approximately 30 percent of the village's population. Growth has not been limited to residential...
...had grown from 67 acres at incorporation to approximately 5,000. Population in 2000 stood at 42,909....
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