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401 Palos Hills, IL, William T. Corcoran( Authored Entry )
...Polish immigrants constitute 50 percent of the population, with substantial numbers of Italian and...
402 Commuting, Michael P. Conzen( Authored Entry )
...is a concomitant of the region's long-term population growth, the spatial expansion of the urban...
...transit. FIGURE 1 Metropolitan decentralization of population and jobs during the second half of the...
403 Political Culture, Robin Einhorn( Authored Entry )
...in the 1880s and 1890s, which increased the population who depended on streetcars. These annexations...
...of the white working-class and middle-class population remained in Chicago than in other comparable...
404 Waste Disposal, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...suburban dumps, which also served booming suburban populations. The amount of household refuse...
...in the late twentieth century as the region's population grew and an affluent society indulged in...
405 Water, Louis P. Cain( Authored Entry )
...growth of industry, combined with continued population growth, would put significant pressure on the...
...law, as the city's human and business populations grew, the underlying objective of Chicago's...
406 Mail Order, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...which were still home to half of the American population as late as 1920, the catalogs served not...
407 Serbs, Peter T. Alter( Authored Entry )
...this suburban growth new churches were built to accommodate the shift in the Serbian population....
408 Street Life, Perry R. Duis( Authored Entry )
...and play. Sweltering nights saw much of the population sleeping on the sidewalks, and evictions cast...
...of antiloitering laws gradually drove the transient population into Skid Row districts to the north,...
409 Rolling Meadows, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...Tall Oaks, Dawngate, and Creekside. By 2000 the population was 24,609, with 19 percent at Hispanic...
410 Thornton, IL, Dave Bartlett( Authored Entry )
...by the Girls Scouts until 1988. Thornton's population has been stable for years at around 3,000,...
411 Willow Springs, IL, Ronald S. Vasile( Authored Entry )
...residents and improved services. By 1970 the population stood at 3,318. Since then Willow Springs...
412 Blue Island, IL, Martin Tuohy( Authored Entry )
...from the town incorporated Robbins in 1917. Population plateaued at 16,000 to 21,000 between 1930...
413 Chesterton, IN, Margaret D. Doyle( Authored Entry )
...Lake Michigan for recreational use. With a population of 10,488 in 2000, Chesterton is the largest...
414 Hobart, IN, Elin B. Christianson( Authored Entry )
...to improve Lake George began in 2000. Hobart's population in 2000 was 25,363. Major annexations in...
415 Hoffman Estates, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...University's branch campus. Between 1970 and 1990 population more than doubled, from 22,238 to to...
416 McHenry, IL, John D. Schroeder( Authored Entry )
...localities, including Chicago. McHenry's population tripled from 2,080 in 1950 to 6,772 in 1970, and...
417 Balaban & Katz, Geoffrey Klingsporn( Authored Entry )
...advantage of new technologies and shifts in population. Of their famous picture palaces—the Central...
418 Salt Creek, D. Bradford Hunt( Authored Entry )
...be classified as a river. The area was once a population center for the Potawatomi , but the arrival...
419 Sikhs, Paul D. Numrich( Authored Entry )
...to Chicago brought a largely professional population that eventually settled in affluent suburban...
420 Metropolitan Statistical Area, William Erbe( Authored Entry )
...that formally define an MSA, including population magnitude and density, and characteristics of the...

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