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Orland Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...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...
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Public Transportation, David M. Young(
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) ...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...
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Lake County, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...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...
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Ward System, Douglas Knox(
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) ...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...
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Hodgkins, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...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...
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Block 37, Ross Miller(
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) ...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...
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Oak Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier and Camille Henderson Zorich(
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) ...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...
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Riverdale, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...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...
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Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...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...
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Winnetka, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
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) ...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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Woodridge, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...through the 1980s and 1990s reaching a population of 30,934 in 2000. Seventy-fifth Street became the...
...north of Woodridge in 1964, expanding the village's population to 5,300, while the Woodridge Center...
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Woodstock, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Day, displayed this growing prosperity. Population grew from 14,353 in 1990 to 20,151 a decade...
...Claussen Pickle Company. Because of increasing population following the Civil War , residents voted...
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Burr Ridge, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...spurred development in Burr Ridge. By 1990 the population had risen to 7,669, a 100 percent increase...
...spell it with one r) on a ridge. By 1963 the population had more than doubled, to 790, and by 1975...
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Japanese, Charlotte Brooks(
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) ...and a Japanese school served the small population, which rose to about four hundred by 1941. When...
...American employees. The relative youth of the population (many Issei stayed in the camps throughout...
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Lyons, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...1970s, as did the red-light district. The population of 10,255 in 2000 consisted of various ethnic...
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Melrose Park, IL, Richard Harris(
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) ...housing. In 2000, 54 percent of the village's population was Hispanic, while less than 3 percent was...
...however, and settlement slowed. By 1880 the population was barely 200, and in 1882 only 38 votes...
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Italians, Rudolph J. Vecoli(
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) ...Philadelphia, in the size of its Italian population. In 1970, Italian immigrants and their children...
...accelerated. Chicago's foreign-born Italian population, 16,008 in 1900, peaked at 73,960 in 1930....
...immigration, thus stabilizing the foreign-born population. Because of labor shortages, Italians...
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Taxis, Liveries, and Limousines, Joshua M. Lupkin(
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) ...in the South Side Black Belt (who served a population often ignored by standard taxicabs), large...
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Zambians, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...of family and friends. The Chicago Zambian population is generally young and well educated; most are...
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Broadview, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...and raised ranches were built. Village population peaked in 1970 with over 9,600 residents. The...
...made up less than 6 percent of Broadview's population in 1970, accounted for 30 percent in 1980 and...
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