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Homewood, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...that operated from 1856 into the 1880s. The population in 1900 was 352. In the twentieth century,...
...electrifying its commuter service. Homewood's population grew from 713 in 1910 to 1,389 in 1920 and...
...pushed the total to 13,371 in 1960. Total population hit 18,871 in 1970 and since then has steadied...
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Single Room Occupancy Hotels, Robert A. Slayton(
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) ...literally, a place to flop. Prior to 1920, the population that lived in these places was varied. At...
...because of any social deviancy. Until recently this population was almost entirely male; it was also...
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Kensington, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...lived there, servicing the railroads and the population of farmers in the vicinity. Despite the...
...south into Kensington's. Its Italian and Polish populations linked it socially to Pullman's ethnic...
...to close in the 1960s and 1970s, Kensington's population also began to change. Mexicans and African...
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Lisle, IL, Patricia K. Kummer(
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) ...nickname “Arboretum Village. ” Lisle's population grew slowly until the 1950s. In 1956, residents...
...a residential site for Chicago's commuting population. Major Chicago builders developed subdivisions...
...Woods. Between 1970 and 1980, the village's population increased from 5,329 to 13,625; by 2000,...
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Merrionette Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...streetlights, and organized social activities. Population increases, however, multiplied the demand...
...even with a new trailer park and new housing in the late 1940s, the 1950 population stood at 1,101....
...By 1970, the population was 2,303, declining to 1,999 in 2000. As the village developed, its small...
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Mount Prospect, IL, David MacLaren(
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) ...Prospect experienced business expansion and population growth that increased the number of residents...
...store. The village's post– World War II population growth was similar to neighboring communities...
...middle-class Chicagoans. During the 1950s, the population increased 370 percent to 18,906, prompting...
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Mundelein, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...derailed his dream, and Mundelein's population grew to only 1,328 by 1940. As suburbanization swept...
...1950 to over 12,000 in 1962. Even with such a population base, the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee...
...operating in January 1963. Still, Mundelein's population continued to rise, from 17,053 in 1980 to...
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Orland Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...From such beginnings, Orland Park grew in population from 366 in 1900 to 51,077 in 2000. While...
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Posen, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...plots and small farms. Its homogeneous population (98 percent Polish ) reflects the enterprise of a...
...residential growth was slow in the 1920s. From a population of 343 in 1910, Posen grew to 4,730 in...
...its present size in terms of land area and population during the 1950s and has seen the development...
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Charters, Municipal, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...Chicago's earliest charters reflected its small population, restricted geographic area, and limited...
...fought the act, arguing that the city's sizeable population, growing industrial base, and expanding...
...constitution gives municipalities with a population over 25,000 broader home rule powers, although...
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Epidemics, Walter Nugent(
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) ...in late 1881 and 1,292 in early 1882. The population rose too fast for vaccination programs to keep...
...lamented that “the great and rapid influx of population has caused a dangerous overcrowding in all...
...newly arrived Europeans. Chicago's doubling of population in the 1880s, much of it from Europe, had...
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Landscape Design, Kevin Harrington(
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) ...uncomprehended. Meanwhile, as Chicago's population grew from about 4,000 in 1840 to more than a...
...popular appeal of environmentalism . The population of Chicago declined in the 1960 census for the...
...expressways suggested a warehousing of populations. Both phenomena demonstrated an urban vision...
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Leisure, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...urban space and was accompanied by a booming population. Leisure patterns were further affected by...
...city with a huge, heavily foreign-origin population. These factors had a major impact on working...
...and its social structure, a heterogeneous population divided into ethnic communities, gender,...
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Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
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) ...diversity of employment opportunities, population, and housing. The ways in which people find jobs,...
...service, which at one time included a population of workers who lived in the homes or businesses of...
...restaurants, dance halls , and theaters. This population of workers was sharply delineated by race;...
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Symerton, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...agricultural town. Over half of its housing was built before 1939, and the 2000 population was 106....
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Bull Valley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...carefully developing community still prizes its rural atmosphere. The population in 2000 was 726....
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Winfield, IN, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...the Loop. Recently incorporated, Winfield had a population of 2,298 in 2000. However, thousands more...
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Crest Hill, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...for the majority of Crest Hill's taxes. The 2000 population was 13,329, including 2,571 prisoners....
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Indian Creek, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Creek encompassed the smallest area of any municipality in Lake County , with a population of 194....
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Machine Politics, Roger Biles(
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) ...largely on the votes of diverse immigrant populations, dispensed jobs and assorted welfare benefits...
...constituted larger proportions of the city's population. Some Irish ward stalwarts, such as Kenna...
...in later years when Chicago's black population increased dramatically. Kelly won reelection in 1935,...
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