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321 Country Club Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan( Authored Entry )
...commercial development, the city continued steady population growth, reaching 6,920 in 1970, 14,676...
...change. In 1990, 57 percent of the city's population was African American by 2000, the percentage...
322 Albanians, Nicholas C. Pano( Authored Entry )
...the 1920s and 1930s, the state's Albanian population grew slowly but steadily, to about 2,000 on the...
323 Evanston, IL, Patrick M. Quinn( Authored Entry )
...of servants and tradesmen swelled Evanston's population. The village of North Evanston merged with...
...By the 1960s Evanston's African American population had become largely concentrated in the city's...
324 Finns, Timo Riippa( Authored Entry )
...to factory work. By 1910 Chicago's Finnish population had risen from 500 to over 1,500, with nearly...
325 Fox Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...Terry Druggan, was wounded. The permanent population of Fox Lake grew slowly between 1930 and 1950....
...destination for Chicagoans even as the permanent population grew. Fox Lake began to modernize its...
326 Glenwood, IL, Ian McGiver( Authored Entry )
...between 1960 and 1980, when the village's population peaked at 10,538. In 2000 there were 9,000...
...Americans increased in the community, the white population defined. In 2000 there were around 4,600...
327 Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...As railroad employment expanded, Harvard's population ballooned. In 1868 voters incorporated the...
...laborers, significantly changing the community's population makeup. With urban expansion overrunning...
328 Industrial Pollution, Andrew Hurley( Authored Entry )
...industrial waste. The impact of pollution on the population varied according to prevailing methods...
...of wood dust into the air. The working-class populations that settled the adjacent residential...
329 Inverness, IL, Ronald Martin( Authored Entry )
...village. Though not initially successful, the population increased over time. Inverness began and...
...began moving into Inverness, pushing its population up to 6,749 by 2000. Though an independent...
330 Itasca, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...of Itasca incorporated. A decade later the population stood at 256. The community, which once...
331 Native Americans, Louis Delgado( Authored Entry )
...this growing, albeit still relatively small population in comparison to other ethnic groups in the...
...city. The Native American population in the Chicago area was nearly 40,000 at the end of the...
332 North Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...struggle the club, with its somewhat higher population density, was annexed. Even then, in 1970 only...
333 Portage, IN, James B. Lane( Authored Entry )
...The census of 1970 revealed that Portage's population had jumped from 11,822 to 19,127 in a decade...
...including a significant Mexican American population. During the last third of the twentieth century...
334 Tourism and Conventions, Anne Moore( Authored Entry )
...such as Pilsen , with a large Mexican population, began courting tourists with walking maps and...
...leaders that brought 20,000 to a city whose population was only 16,000. The city's central location...
335 The City the Planners Saw, Carl Smith( Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay) )
...if the national and local conditions governing the population of Chicago shall average in the future...
...would reach 13.25 million. (Chicago's population did peak about that year, though at approximately...
...entire state of Illinois in 1950. Chicago's population was about 2.9 million in 2000, an increase...
336 Russians, Katarzyna Zechenter( Authored Entry )
...they constituted 80 percent of Chicago's Jewish population. The Russian Jews who arrived in Chicago...
...Lake View , and Albany Park . By 1930, the population of Russian Jews in the Maxwell Street area had...
337 Buddhists, Paul D. Numrich( Authored Entry )
...prior to World War II. Of traditionally Buddhist populations, only the Chinese and Japanese had any...
...of Religions in 1993. Greater Chicago's Buddhist population at the close of the twentieth century...
338 Fuller Park, Clinton E. Stockwell( Authored Entry )
...Expressway, which displaced one-third of the population. The 1950s also saw the erosion of the local...
...South and West Sides. Fuller Park saw its population change from 80 percent white in 1945 to 97...
339 Funeral Service Industry, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...and providing funeral services. Chicago's growing population supported the emergence during the late...
...and beyond. Mortuaries moved with ethnic populations from the city to the suburbs. Even the rise of...
340 Galleries, Lynne Warren( Authored Entry )
...Imagists was a notable boost for the local population of artists , as well as a flashpoint for...

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