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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...in the South Side Black Belt (who served a population often ignored by standard taxicabs), large...
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Zambians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Cabrini-Green, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...and William Green Homes (1962). The original population of Cabrini-Green reflected the area's prior...
...housing gave Cabrini-Green a permanent population. CHA failed to budget money to repair buildings...
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Cameroonians, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...A smaller working-class segment of the population has found work in blue-collar service jobs....
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Edward Eggleston and Literary Realism, Bruce Levy(
Authored Entry
) ...the urban media's ability to beguile the population with gossip, or what he called “sensations”;...
...about the streetcar's tendency to mingle populations and increase anonymity, thus creating at once “...
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Ford Heights, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...In 1949, East Chicago Heights incorporated with a growing African American population. However, then...
...as now, the small size of its population, with little commercial activity, has limited the financial...
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Hazel Crest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...14,816 by 2000. African Americans have come to dominate Hazel Crest's population, growing from 52...
...percent of the population in 1990 to 78 percent in 2000. As with many suburbs, the village overlaps...
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La Grange Park, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
Authored Entry
) ...and commercial development. The village's population more than doubled during the decade, from 6,176...
...La Grange Park remained a primarily residential community with a population of 13,295 in 2000....
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Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott(
Authored Entry
) ...roads, sewers, and parks serve the entire population. Chicagoans have been less ambitious and less...
...mains, sewers, and paved streets followed population outward into Cook County in a repeated process...
...mission with worker housing. Designed for a population of 200,000, Gary had an ordinary street grid...
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A Cosmopolitan Frontier, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Origins of Metropolitan Chicago's Foreign-Born Population A Cosmopolitan Frontier With the signing...
...1820s and early 1830s an expanding American population began to exert greater economic and political...
...place that reflected the global origins of its population. In 1825, tax assessments for residents of...
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Round Lake Heights, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...try in 1960. Round Lake Heights is now a bedroom community, with a population of 1,347 in 2000....
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St. John, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...the town attracted Chicago commuters, with population growing from 1,757 in 1970 to 8,382 in 2000....
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