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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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Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford(
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) ...two million immigrants nearly equaled the total population of Chicago by 1910, had more citizens of...
...Catholics (then and now a large segment of the population), but to some extent for Lutherans and...
...of black newcomers to Chicago and boosted the population of the South Side community to well over...
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Irving Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...buildings as potential landmarks. Irving Park's population grew from 49,489 in 1980 to 58,643 in...
...2000. During those two decades the Hispanic population increased from 9 percent to 43 percent, and...
...and Indians predominated among Asians, who constituted 8 percent of the population in 2000....
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Round Lake Beach, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...his development attractive. As the area's population increased, demands for municipal services grew....
...the end of April 1937. Round Lake Beach's population ballooned as returning World War II servicemen...
...veterans. By the early 1960s, Round Lake Beach's population surpassed that of neighboring Round Lake...
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Ashburn, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...of a Tax Increment Financing District along Columbus Avenue. The 2000 census population was 39,584....
...1894 the early Dutch , Swedish , and Irish population had built only 30 homes; 11 years later just...
...camp for the Signal Corps, and Ashburn's population rose to 1,363. Afterward it had U.S. Post Office...
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West Lawn, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Street through West Lawn to Clearing, the population grew to 2,544 by 1920. The area east of Pulaski...
...and Italian , with a small Lithuanian immigrant population. Residents were factory, clerical, and...
...development followed the growth in population. The Roman Catholic parish of St. Nicholas of...
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Will County, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...fur supply. While the fur trade waned, the population expanded. In 1826, Jesse Walker established...
...subsistence. Responding to their expanding population and to the inconvenience of day-long trips to...
...Between 1920 and 1930, the African American population in Will County more than doubled, and nearly...
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Chatham, Wallace Best(
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) ...most solidly middle-class African American populations in the city, and is home to several of the...
...for European immigrants settling in Chatham. Population growth and residential expansion in Chatham...
...dramatic increases in both property values and the population of Chatham. As new residents of mostly...
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Englewood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...density and economic segregation. By 1920 the population soared to 86,619 and Englewood's shopping...
...were 40 years old, and the expanding Black Belt population from the east resulted in rapid turnover....
...1940 blacks constituted just 2 percent of the population, but this increased to 11 percent in 1950,...
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Auburn Gresham, Eileen M. McMahon(
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) ...Twenty-one percent of Auburn Gresham's population were of Irish stock in the 1930s. German...
...neighborhood convenient. Between 1920 and 1930 the population of Auburn Gresham nearly tripled, from...
...Approximately 44 percent of Auburn Gresham's population were Roman Catholics , concentrated into...
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Dunning, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...in the eastern portion. At its peak in 1970 population reached 43,856 but fell to 36,957 by 1990....
...resource center at Narragansett and Montrose. By 2000 the population had grown again, to 42,164....
...as Dunning. Outside the state facility, the population had grown to only 1,305 by 1909. In 1916 the...
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