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521 Oak Lawn, IL, Betsy Gurlacz( Authored Entry )
...neighborhoods of single-family homes. Oak Lawn's population grew from 8,751 in 1950 to 60,305 in...
522 Oakland, Claudette Tolson( Authored Entry )
...tensions escalated as the African American population increased. Some white residents resorted to...
523 Paraguayans, Stephen R. Porter( Authored Entry )
...Paraguay could provide. Chicago's Caraguatayan population numbered around 1,000 by the early 1970s...
524 Public Buildings in the Loop, David Garrard Lowe( Authored Entry )
...county courthouse and city hall as the city's population swelled over 30,000. The answer was a tall...
525 Barrington Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...a small shopping strip along Route 14. With a population of 3,915 in 2000, Barrington Hills has kept...
526 Slovenes, Emily Brunner( Authored Entry )
...Chicago before the Civil War , the bulk of the population arrived after the 1880s. Most settled in...
527 South Chicago, David Bensman( Authored Entry )
...Americans constituted almost half of the population, and Latinos, many recent immigrants from...
528 Almshouses, (Margaret) Dorsey Phelps( Authored Entry )
...4,300 in January 1932, but usually the population, of whom approximately 10 percent were children,...
529 Burnside, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...the Triangle had become home to a small population of the newest immigrants— Hungarians , Italians ,...
530 Gage Park, Clinton E. Stockwell( Authored Entry )
...and 39 percent Hispanic. Ten years later the population had grown to 39,193, of whom 79 percent were...
531 Gypsies, Marlene Sway( Authored Entry )
...Austro-Hungarian Empire with heavy Serbian populations such as Croatia and Vojvodina. These Machwaya...
532 Hmong, Tracy Steffes( Authored Entry )
...continued into the 1990s, the Chicago Hmong population began to migrate in large numbers in the mid-...
533 Jamaicans, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...of Jamaicans. As the size of the Jamaican population in Chicago increased, especially through the...
534 Joliet, IL, Robert E. Sterling( Authored Entry )
...been used to revitalize the downtown City Center. Population leapt from 76,836 in 1990 to 106,221 in...
535 Libraries, Cook County, Alice Calabrese( Authored Entry )
...enlightenment and spiritual needs of the growing population, and many developed and maintained small...
536 Montclare, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...and property upkeep by conscientious residents. Population figures for 1970 showed 11,675, of which...
537 Nigerians, Charles Adams Cogan and Cyril Ibe( Authored Entry )
...brief periods of civilian rule, generated a large population of expatriate Nigerian professionals,...
538 Opera, Thomas Bauman( Authored Entry )
...in the 1880s. The city's sizeable German population contributed to the vogue of Wagner in the mid-...
539 Introduction, Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay )
...It would be the same as if we criticized the population of Vienna saying it was full of Nazis"—...
540 Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating( Authored Entry )
...the South Side , which began to expand with population growth in the 1920s, and a smaller enclave on...

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