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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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School Desegregation, John L. Rury(
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) ...Like other large northern cities, Chicago's population changed dramatically in the postwar period....
...At the same time, by 1960 Chicago's black population reached over 800,000, almost a quarter of the...
...1970 and 1990 the white portion of the school population fell by nearly 75 percent. As the century...
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Guatemalans, Heather McClure and José L. Oliva(
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) ...Guatemalans were among its largest client populations. Émigrés also created organizations such as...
...residential clusters. Chicago's Guatemalan population has dispersed in Uptown, Rogers Park , Logan...
...who form the majority of the Guatemalan population in Chicago and often have little or no formal...
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Humboldt Park, David A. Badillo(
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) ...of Humboldt Park's 29,000 Latinos (with Latinos constituting 41 percent of the total population). By...
...2000 Latinos were 48 percent of the population, and half were of Mexican origin....
...Meanwhile, the black population has steadily increased to equal the size of the Latino population....
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Armour Square, David M. Solzman(
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) ...neighborhoods. African Americans dominate the population to the south; the middle section holds...
...the Civil War, and later, Swedes joined the population. These groups used the area as a way station...
...the neighborhood reached an all-time high population of over 23,000, with blacks making up nearly...
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North Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...development proceeded slowly; in 1910 the population numbered only 478. From 1910 to 1930, however,...
...small apartments were built in the 1920s. The population tripled from 1920 to 1930 and the community...
...the only industrial activity in North Park. Population grew rapidly during World War II and in the...
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Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...leaders continue their opposition to dense population developments replacing estate acreage as it...
...of the Civil War era increased Barrington's population to 300 in 1863. Because leaders believed the...
...communities in the 1950s and 1960s. Barrington's population grew from 3,213 in 1930 to only 5,435 in...
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South Chicago Heights, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Chicago Road. In response to a now aging population, the village has an attractive senior center....
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Chicago Lawn, Eileen M. McMahon(
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) ...African Americans composed 27 percent of the population. Hispanic groups accounted for 28 percent....
...belt community. Between 1920 and 1930 the population increased from 14,000 to 47,000. Ethnic groups...
...not entirely stop its growth. By 1940 its population reached 49,291. Chicago Lawn's residents formed...
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Crystal Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...center moved away from the railroad. By 2000 the population had grown to 38,000. As the lake grew...
...incorporated as Lakewood in 1933. The area's population remained stable from the 1930s through the...
...From the Ladd success to 1980, the city's population doubled, reaching 18,590, and the commercial...
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Glencoe, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...Road in 1964. In recent years, Glencoe's population has declined, falling to 8,762 in 2000—95...
...rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s. Its population peaked at 10,542 in 1970. Glencoe's demography...
...a significant number of Chicago's Jewish population in the middle decades of the twentieth century....
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