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251 Manhattan, IL, Erik Gellman( Authored Entry )
...so that it could license saloons . The population of 1,117 in 1960 grew steadly to 3,330 in 2000....
252 McCullom Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...The village has remained a moderate-income bedroom community, with a population of 1,038 in 2000....
253 Oakwood Hills, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...is a bedroom community for local workers and Chicago commuters. The 2000 population was 2,194....
254 Bloomingdale, IL, Jane S. Teague( Authored Entry )
...Park District Museum. During the 1970s the population grew as the toll road system spurred growth...
...the area. German immigrants diversified the population and in 1845 Bloomingdale became one of the...
255 Amusement Parks, Stan Barker( Authored Entry )
...next century. In the 1960s, as middle-class population shifted to the suburbs, old urban parks like...
256 Golf, IL, Howard N. Rabinowitz( Authored Entry )
...Kansas,” as one longtime resident put it. Its population of 454 in 1990 was 98.9 percent white, with...
257 Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long( Authored Entry )
...industry and suburbanization led to a veritable population explosion, from 7,179 in 1980 to 28,834...
...farmers to produce for the growing urban population. The Bowman Dairy Company furnished the city...
258 Hondurans, Kate Caldwell( Authored Entry )
...neighborhoods with significant Honduran populations included Logan Square , Uptown , South Chicago,...
259 Arlington Heights, IL, David Buisseret( Authored Entry )
...clubs were founded in the 1930s. The great population explosion took place in the 1950s and 1960s,...
...as Arlington Heights in 1887, when its population numbered about 1,000. Most were farmers, but they...
260 Loyola University, Br. Michael Grace, S.J.( Authored Entry )
...Loyola has continued to educate immigrant populations, earlier from Europe, and more recently from...
261 Orland Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan( Authored Entry )
...set in the midst of farmland about 40 years ago, Orland Hills grew to a population of 6,779 by 2000....
...Park, Orland Township maintained a stable rural population for a hundred years. Throughout the south...
262 Public Transportation, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...get anywhere in town on foot or horseback. As population increased rapidly in the 1850s, the demand...
...Chicago Public Library. FIGURE 1 As Chicago's population continued to grow, reaching 1 million in...
263 Lake County, IL, Michael H. Ebner( Authored Entry )
...exceeded 100,000 inhabitants in 1930, its population included its first urban clusters—Libertyville...
...metropolitan regions. From 1950 to 2000, Chicago's population decreased 20 percent as Lake County's...
...97 percent white in 1950; by 2000 the county’s population included 14 percent Hispanic, 7 percent...
264 Ward System, Douglas Knox( Authored Entry )
...nineteenth century to accommodate growth in population and territory, eventually stabilizing at 35...
...to ensure roughly equal representation by population size. In the 1970s and 1980s there were five...
265 Hodgkins, IL, Ronald S. Vasile( Authored Entry )
...addition of numerous motor freight terminals. Hodgkins has a growing Mexican population, almost 30...
...percent of the population of 2,134 in the 2000 census. Somewhat fewer than half of the residents...
266 Block 37, Ross Miller( Authored Entry )
...an hour. On a typical day it housed the population of a small town, only to be completely empty at...
...past. After the World War II , as Chicago's population began its permanent migration away from the...
267 Oak Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier and Camille Henderson Zorich( Authored Entry )
...a few suburban stops in the system. The village's population rose to 10,000 in 1900 and increased to...
...Republican, mainline Protestant , white population saw rising numbers of Roman Catholics , Jews ,...
...Oak Park maintained its majority white population through extensive and white-oriented planning, and...
268 Riverdale, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...Since that time, Riverdale has lost both population and jobs. Industrial wastes from the factories...
...grade schools in West Pullman. Riverdale's population reached its peak of 15,018 in 1970 after the...
269 Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow( Authored Entry )
...of contagious disease away from the center of population. Rebuilt after a fire, in 1852 it began to...
...in Chicago, with 718 beds. The increasing population of Jews on Chicago's Near Southwest Side...
...in technology paralleled tremendous growth in population from immigration, which strained existing...
270 Winnetka, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo( Authored Entry )
...the lakeshore. Since the 1960s, Winnetka's population has remained below 13,000. At the close of the...
...services. Between 1880 and 1920 Winnetka's population grew ten-fold. Intent on maintaining its...

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