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Lake Forest, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...its centrality in their community. The population of 877 in 1880 advanced to 1,203 in 1890; it...
...as the nation's first planned shopping center. Population reached 6,554 by 1930, with much of the...
...completed in 1931, connected it to other population centers. Local services and facilities required...
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Riverdale, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...of African Americans looking for better housing and schools. Riverdale's population was 15,055 in...
...2000, with a black population of 87 percent....
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South Lawndale, Christopher R. Reed(
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) ...appreciable increase in South Lawndale's Hispanic population, from 47 percent in 1980 and 4 percent...
...in 1970. As the Hispanic population expanded, ethnic white neighborhoods disappeared as those...
...last several decades, 40 percent of the total population has been under 20 years of age. With this...
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Calumet Heights, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...experienced a surge in residential building, and population more than doubled, to 7,343 by 1930....
...The large foreign-born population included many Poles , Italians , Irish , and Yugoslavians . The...
...Avenue and 87th Street. The community's population grew to 9,349 in 1950, and surged to 19,352 in...
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Evergreen Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...of the village's income. Evergreen Park's population peaked in the 1970s at almost 26,000, dropping...
...established in 1910. Although the village's population was only 705 in 1920, a 30-year growth spurt...
...Park. Between 1945 and 1953, the village's population more than tripled. In 1951, the Drury Lane...
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Grayslake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...a spur to suburban expansion. The village population more than doubled in the 1990s, rising to...
...the needs of area farmers; the village population numbered only 736 in 1920. As improved road...
...to establish a suburban lifestyle. By 1950 the population had risen to 1,970. In the late twentieth...
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Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
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) ...a small foundry, a glove factory, and a population of 523 in 1910. In 1913 developer Ernest de St....
...expanded greatly around that time, and the population grew to 1,176 in 1930. Keen's foundry became a...
...and Hammond in northwest Indiana. By 1960, the population reached 9,483 and it soared to a peak of...
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Lincolnwood, IL, Laura Milsk(
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) ...served residents' religious needs. Significant population growth in Lincolnwood occurred with the...
...30 acres of barren land in the area. Population slowly increased, and the first commercial...
...was established in 1873. The agrarian population grew after the establishment of a Chicago & North...
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Maywood, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
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) ...demographic shifts, as Maywood's African American population increased from 3 percent in 1930 to 82...
...Hispanics constitute 10 and 11 percent of the population, respectively, and live in the village's...
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Mount Greenwood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...and increased racial hostility. By 2000 the population had declined to 18,820, of whom 94 percent...
...Dutch Protestants . The Dutch and German populations were later joined by other European immigrant...
...its first spurt of residential growth, with population increasing from 3,310 to 12,331. These young...
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Palos Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...were converted to year-round residences. The population rose as families from urban areas settled...
...commuting to jobs in Chicago. Palos Park's population (4,689 in 2000) contains few minorities and...
...atmosphere. Until midcentury, the village's population remained in the hundreds. The Calumet Sag...
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Swedes, Anita Olson Gustafson(
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) ...and Norway lost a higher proportion of their population in the migration to America. Most Swedish...
...only 40 Swedes lived in Chicago, and that population grew slowly. Many of these earliest settlers...
...United States. During the 1870s, the Swedish population in the city doubled, outnumbered only by the...
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Wicker Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...class neighborhood with a large Hispanic population. Efforts to revitalize Wicker Park in the early...
...of the area's poor and mostly Hispanic population. By the 1990s, however, Wicker Park had achieved a...
...city, the area provided an alternative to a population who had already been spurned by the Anglo-...
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Dyer, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
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) ...the Northgate Park in 1974. By 1990, the population had reached 10,923. Three years later, some...
...treatment plant were solved. The 2000 population grew to 13,895. Many of the new residents came from...
...Ford automobile agency, Fitch Brothers. The population reached 545 by 1910. The citizens of Dyer...
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Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...primarily Mexicans , rose to 8 percent of the population. African Americans remain less than 1...
...Jews . The area saw its largest increase in population between 1920 and 1930. During this decade,...
...and St. Richard's (1928), accommodated the population surge. Though the Great Depression halted most...
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Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Most Lake Zurich summer cottages were winterized to make room for the expanding population; the...
...community's 1936 population of 350 jumped to 3,800 by 1966. Although Lake Zurich's reputation as a...
...2000 the community had gained the status of suburban bedroom community with a population of 18,104....
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Lansing, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...the 1950s Lansing experienced its largest population increase, and the last remaining farmland was...
...system in the 1960s and '70s stimulated the growth of light industry, commerce, and population....
...The 2000 population was 28,332, of which 85 percent were white, with a growing number of blacks and...
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Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
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) ...governments provide services for small populations in unincorporated areas. The three principal...
...and the protection of individuals. As the nation's population grew, spread out, and established new...
...its larger cities more autonomy. As the population of Chicago grew, more and more people moved from...
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Calumet City, IL, Dominic Candeloro(
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) ...its drawing power. In 2000 Calumet City's population was 39,071, with 54 percent African American...
...Road with Hammond . Founded in 1893 when the population consisted mainly of German Lutheran farmers,...
...factories and commerce of Hammond. The 1900 population of 2,935 grewto 7,492 by 1920. By that time,...
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State Politics, Michael J. Devine(
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) ...Despite its huge and diverse population, enormous industrial might, and key location as a major...
...already held 12 percent of the state's population, a figure that leaped to 35 percent by 1900, and...
...Chicago, with more than half the state's population, had only 19 of the state's 51 state legislative...
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