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Planning Before the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...a jump in both immigration from abroad and population mobility within the nation, and an ethos of...
...argued that the city's location, and the local population's ability to understand and exploit these...
...by 1833; the expulsion of the Native American population shortly after; the greatly anticipated and...
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Austin, Judith A. Martin(
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) ...beginning in the late 1960s. By 1980 Austin's population was predominantly African American , more...
...loss of jobs and of commerce as its white population moved to the suburbs and to Chicago's Northwest...
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South Shore, Wallace Best(
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) ...not only a large increase in the area's population, but also greater diversity among its residents...
...in housing stock. Between 1920 and 1930 the population of South Shore jumped from 31,832 to 78,755....
...with an increase in the African American population (69 percent by 1970 and 95 percent by 1980), it...
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West Ridge, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
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) ...developed during this period as the area's population swelled from about 7,500 in 1920 to almost...
...West Ridge grew steadily during the 1930s. Population growth and economic development, however, did...
...remains primarily commercial in orientation. Population growth necessitated more housing units and...
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Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...improvements drew even more diverse populations. French and Eastern European Jews settled in the...
...in 1977, weakened the area's economy, and population declined by one-third between 1930 and 1980....
...the Polish Highlander Alliance. By 2000 the population had grown to 44,912, 69 percent of Mexican...
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Canadians, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...In addition to the French Canadian population, Chicago has long been home to significant numbers of...
...of Ontario moved to the United States because population growth and changes in agriculture limited...
...and Saskatchewan. Chicago's Anglophone Canadian population has left few traces that historians can...
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Filipinos, Barbara M. Posadas(
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) ...United States census, Chicago's Filipino population grew from 154 in 1920 to 1,796 10 years later,...
...1934 “old-timers. ” By 1960 Chicago's Filipino population totaled 3,554: 2,143 men and 1,411 women....
...of extended family units. The Filipino population in Chicago numbered 9,497 in 1970, reached 41,283...
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Hammond, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...downtown. From 1970 to 1990 Hammond's population declined 22 percent, from 107,983 to 84,236. In...
...and professional occupations. By 2000, the population of 83,048 remained 72 percent white, primarily...
...and African Americans accounted for 21 percent and 15 percent of the population, respectively....
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Harvey, IL, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...the local community. During the 1920s Harvey's population grew from 9,216 to 16,374. The development...
...developing new products. By 1960, Harvey's population reached 29,071, with many residents employed...
...changed dramatically as the African American population rose from 7 to 66 percent. The turnover led...
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Kenwood, Max Grinnell(
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) ...Illinois Central tracks in the 1910s, and the population of the area increased to 21,000 by 1920....
...of deterioration within the community, as the population of the area continued to grow significantly...
...accelerated from 1940 to 1960, as population increased 41 percent without new construction of...
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Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...Naperville organized as a city in 1890 and had a population of 2,629 by 1900. Between 1890 and 1920,...
...city grew to 50 square miles in 1993, with a population of 128,358 in 2000. Among municipalities in...
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Avondale, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...transportation to jobs in the city. By 1920, the population exceeded 38,000. More than one-quarter...
...By 1930 Poles constituted 33 percent of the population of 48,000. As new waves of Poles entered the...
...Hispanics accounted for 37 percent of the total population. Avondale developed as a working-class...
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The World in Chicago, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Origins of Metropolitan Chicago's Foreign-Born Population The World in Chicago While immigration and...
...the influx of newcomers continued to contribute to population diversity in the region. Even as...
...rate dropped from its peak in the 1880s, the population of the Chicago metropolitan area (city and...
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Motoring, James Akerman(
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) ...the growth of both automobile ownership and population. i3543 After World War II, families could...
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Sleepy Hollow, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...barn became the village hall. By 1960 the town's population totaled 311. Within the next decade the...
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Addison, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1961. Addison began to grow in area and population when developer Anthony Ross built Normandy...
...houses and a shopping center. The Addison population grew from 813 in 1950 to 35,914 by 2000. In the...
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East Hazel Crest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...the past 20 years. In 1990, 31 percent of its population was minority, rising to 48 percent in 2000....
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Germans, Christiane Harzig(
Authored Entry
) ...factors, however, stimulated greater movement. Population growth, inadequate agricultural production...
...when Germans constituted one-sixth of Chicago's population, until the turn of the century, people of...
...heritage, although 22 percent of Chicago's population still did so. Toward the end of the nineteenth...
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Judaism, Arnold Jacob Wolf(
Authored Entry
) ...has yet to meet the challenges that the older population centers met. Will the varied, far-flung new...
...sometimes abandoning older centers of Jewish population and creativity. The new suburbs yielded new...
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Built Environment of the Chicago Region, Robert Bruegmann(
Authored Entry
) ...built environment for a very large portion of the population, more than any individual buildings, no...
...time of the Great Fire a large part of the population, including many factory workers, could afford...
...change created instability. While city population declined after World War II, suburban development...
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