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Park Ridge, IL, John R. Schmidt(
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) ...Northwest (now Kennedy) Expressway . As its population grew, Park Ridge moved to increase its tax...
...upper-middle-class residential suburb. The population continues to be largely white Anglo-Saxon...
...suggested the name Brickton. By 1873 the population of Brickton was 405. The brick pits had been...
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Algonquin, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...of the next three decades. In the 1980s the population more than doubled, reaching 11,663 by 1990,...
...Juliette Kinzie brought many more. Algonquin's population doubled during summer months through the...
...with 1,223 residents, Algonquin experienced a population increase of 60 percent or greater in each...
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Franklin Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...65 acres and was the fourth largest industrial area in Illinois. By 2000, population was at 19,434...
...with an Hispanic population around 38 percent. Most residents were blue-collar workers employed by...
...continually supported the efforts of businesses. Population increased from 3,007 in 1940 to 18,322...
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Crestwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...residential growth in the 1960s and 1970s. Its population grew from 1,213 in 1960 to 10,852 in 1980,...
...early years and throughout its growth, the population of Crestwood has been predominately of German...
...and English extractions. The minority population was under 10 percent in 2000. A substantial...
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Waukegan, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...Register of Historic Places in 1978. The population of Waukegan was 67,653 in 1980, and 87,901 by...
...2000. The small African American population in Waukegan that had existed since the 1870s...
...had grown to nearly 20 percent of the total population by 2000....
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Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
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) ...Railroad opened the Howard Station in 1908, population jumped dramatically. The construction of...
...of large apartments into smaller ones. Population density increased especially in the area north of...
...lower rents and a more transient and poor population. Neighborhood concerns about congestion,...
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Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...produced milk and butter for Chicago's growing population. In 1865, the county became a dairy center...
...markets. Between 1860 and 1900, the county's population grew from 30,062 to 78,792, with the growth...
...concentrated along the river. The population reached 125,327 by 1930, and continued to grow slightly...
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Alsip, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...grew slowly until after World War II . Its population stood at 1,228 in 1950, but explosive growth...
...with extensive commercial growth, Alsip had a population of 19,725 and one of the most congested...
...Cook County, 16 miles SW of Loop. Alsip's population is part of a large suburban fabric that has...
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Wauconda, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...1980 movie “Blues Brothers. ” Its permanent population rose to over 2,200 by 1956 and 5,662 in 1974...
...area. The village attracted many additional residents in the 1990s, a population of 9,448 in 2000....
...its first president. Although Wauconda's population was only 368 in 1910, the community had achieved...
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Wilmette, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...the first such temple to be built in North America. Wilmette's population peaked in 1970 at 32,134....
...The population of Wilmette consistently has been over 90 percent white, a percentage that declined...
...point, the village experienced tremendous population growth, encouraged by increasing train service....
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Contested Spaces, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...of daily life, especially as the city's black population swelled with continued migration from the...
...districts are redrawn every 10 years as population changes and states gain or lose seats in the U.S....
...years of the twentieth, Illinois gained population and seats, necessitating the regular redrawing of...
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Matteson, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...After the Second World War, Matteson grew steadily, reaching a population of 3,225 in 1960. By 1970...
...4,741, and then, with a boom underway, the population more than doubled, to 10,223 by 1980. In...
...there were 12,928 people living in Matteson. Population growth brought greater diversity. In 1970...
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Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...and 37 percent in the 1990s. The Hispanic population grew from 3,072 in 1980 to 16,846 in 1990. By...
...now named Cragin. Within the first two years the population rose to 200, and the community boasted a...
...drew Poles and Italians as well, and the population of the area more than quadrupled in the next...
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Montgomery, IL, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...settlers, and the remaining Potawatomi population. Stagecoaches delivered Montgomery's mail biweekly...
...of life it promises. Highways are drawing new populations to the valley at an unprecedented rate....
...town, Montgomery is rapidly growing, with a population of 5,471 in 2000. While Montgomery always...
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Religious Geography, Lowell W. Livezey and Mark Bouman(
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) ...diversification, and distribution of the city's population, which in turn was tied to the growth and...
...not simply the aggregate suburbanization of population but the fact that the suburbanization process...
...activity kept pace with Chicago's tremendous population growth, from 300,000 in 1870 to 1.3 million...
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Elburn, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...as Elburn in 1886. Once largely rural, the area's population began rapidly expanding in the 1990s....
...The 2000 population was 2,756....
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Real Estate, Pierre deVise(
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) ...first time in almost half a century, Chicago's population increased. The suburban real-estate market...
...subdivision. Riverside was platted in 1871 for a population of 10,000, a target reached only briefly...
...Harvey was subdivided in 1890 to shelter a population of 25,000, a figure achieved 70 years later....
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West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
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) ...Farther west, a small African American population was located at 63rd Street and Loomis Boulevard....
...among the foreign-born. In the 1930s the population of West Englewood continued to grow as more...
...1970 and 1980, when the African American population increased from 48 to 98 percent. The 1970s saw...
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Garfield Ridge, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...came in the 1920s. During that decade, the population jumped from 2,472 to 6,050, with Eastern...
...Depression years, but between 1940 and 1950 the population almost doubled from 6,813 to 12,900, and...
...first time included a sizable African American population (6.6 percent). Blacks lived exclusively in...
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Bensenville, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...commercial service in 1955. Bensenville's population grew dramatically after World War II, doubling...
...Indians , East Asians, and Eastern Europeans, and grew slightly, to a population of 20,703, in 2000....
...Europe contributed to building the area's population, as many German immigrants settled in the area....
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