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Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Washington Park, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...racial transition and its predominately black population. St. Anselm Church, built in 1909 by Irish...
...of the Chicago Land Clearance Commission, the population of the community has declined, down from...
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West Elsdon, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...were settling in the area in greater numbers. Population grew from 855 in 1920 to 2,861 in 1930. The...
...parish in 1927 to serve the growing Catholic population. An elementary school was established with...
...other community goals. West Elsdon grew from a population of 3,255 in 1940 to its peak of 14,215 in...
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Cook County Hospital, John Raffensperger(
Authored Entry
) ...infested with rats and roaches. As city population increased in the 1870s, the hospital became more...
...rapidly increasing African American population turned to Cook County and Provident Hospital in the...
...face of widespread exclusion. The hospital population became almost entirely black until the recent...
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East Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...and schools ( Marshall) served the small population. Unreliable transportation service further...
...apartment buildings were erected to house the population working in local industry. East Garfield...
...Garfield Park lost more than two-thirds of its population to out-migration, from a high of 70,091 in...
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Jails and Prisons, Jess Maghan(
Authored Entry
) ...state penitentiaries except in counties with populations over a million. The method of inflicting...
...the growth of gang influence in the inmate population and jail operations. In 1967, a county civil...
...to incarceration also reduced the prison population. Now officially defined and readily recognized...
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Consumer Credit, Lendol Calder(
Authored Entry
) ...declined. But in the 1970s the share of the population operating outside the mainstream financial...
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Villa Park, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...Park was a mature suburb, maintaining a population of 22,075. While still desirable, Villa Park's...
...Villa Park had nearly tripled its initial population of 300; in 1930, over 6,000 residents called...
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Wheeling, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...off Wheeling Road just south of Dundee. The population in 2000 was at 34,496 21 percent of whom were...
...a hardware store, and a school spurred population growth in the 1840s. Napoleon Periolat started a...
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Cary, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...land to a housing developer in the 1950s. The population of Cary grew steadily from 943 in 1950 to...
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Glenview, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...part of Glenview Park District. By 1950 the population was 6,142. In 1967 the University of Illinois...
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