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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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Berwyn, IL, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...experienced a second building boom after World War II , pushing its population to 54,226 in 1960....
...Population began to fall thereafter, as longtime residents aged and their offspring moved away. By...
...along with Germans , Poles , and Italians . Population more than doubled between 1910 and 1920, with...
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Bridgeview, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...$13 million in tax revenues a year. The 2000 population was 15,335, only slightly larger than it had...
...presence, making up 7 percent of the population. In 1981 an Islamic social club was established, and...
...Lake Michigan. Ten years after incorporation population had surged to roughly 3,600, and by 1960 it...
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American Civil Liberties Union, Ian McGiver(
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) ...hold a public march in Skokie , a community with a large Jewish population north of the city, where...
...about 10 percent of the population were German concentration camp survivors. Many local members of...
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Des Plaines, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...welcomed Oakton Community College in 1969. Population reached 57,239 in 1970 and declined to about...
...in the following two decades. By 2000 the population had grown to 58,720, with 17 percent Hispanic,...
...as a village. The 1880 census figured population at 818. Flooding posed a constant threat. Although...
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Munster, IN, Lance Trusty(
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) ...developed to serve a largely college-bound student population. As the century ended, Munster was a...
...home to a well-educated and largely professional population of 21,511. A remarkable hospital complex...
...of Munster was organized in 1907 with a population of 500. After 1920 growing numbers of commuters...
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Olympia Fields, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...to make sure no two houses would look alike. Population surged from 160 in 1950 to 1,503 in 1960 and...
...1964), and Temple Anshe Sholom (1964). As population grew (to 4,146 in 1980 and 4,732 in 2000),...
...was a regular stop for commuter trains. Population, however, remained slight. According to local...
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Deerfield, IL, Thomas A. Auger(
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) ...and because of the area's heavy deer population. The opening of the Milwaukee railroad in 1872...
...in 1910 Deerfield was still a small town with a population of only 476. The completion of the Edens...
...settlers to the area a century before. The population of Deerfield increased from 7,009 people in...
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North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...the needs of its industrial and residential populations. In the early nineteenth century a portage...
...Co. in 1906 brought North Lawndale's population to 46,225 by 1910. During the second decade of the...
...German Jews, North Lawndale's burgeoning population established their own small city of community...
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Lake Villa, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Population grew rapidly to 5,864 in 2000, as developers built thousands of homes, along with a strip...
...slowly, incorporating in 1901. By 1910 the population was 342. While Grand Avenue (Route 132) was...
...was some growth through new subdivisions in the mid-1980s. In 1990 the village population was 2,857....
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Prairie Grove, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...village incorporated in 1973, the rural locale's population of 434 residents was barely dense enough...
...sites, have more than doubled the size of the village, which had a population of 960 in 2000....
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