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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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Rockdale, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Rockdale now includes a significant Hispanic population. Combining residences and industry, Rockdale...
...Zone provided tax breaks for corporations to relocate in the area. The population in 2000 was 1,888....
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Lake View, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...American refugees from California and the increasing Latino population, did arrive in family units,...
...most of Lake View's new population were single, childless young adults....
...as the 1950s, an identifiable gay male population resided in the Belmont Harbor area. According to...
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Great Migration, James Grossman(
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) ...many of the plantation regions where black population was most concentrated. Other railroad lines...
...in 1916, Chicago drew its African American population from the Deep South, especially Mississippi,...
...Americans constituted 2 percent of Chicago's population; by 1970, they were 33 percent. What had...
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Lindenhurst, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...coordinate their planning to deal with projected population increases throughout the region. Though...
...accelerated in the 1970s, and by 1990 the population was 8,038. This grew to 12,539 in 2000. Most...
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African Americans, Christopher Manning(
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) ...first black community in the 1840s, with the population nearing 1,000 by 1860. John Jones, a tailor,...
...Chicago, pushing the city's African American population from approximately 4,000 in 1870 to 15,000...
...on the city's South Side , Chicago's black population developed a class structure composed of a...
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Bannockburn, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...than most Chicago suburbs. In 2000, the population was only 1,429, of whom 88 percent were white....
...Asian Americans accounted for the largest segment of the small minority population....
...suburb that has catered to its mostly residential population through zoning and service provisions....
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Richton Park, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...in the late 1960s and 1970s, the village's population boomed as it annexed new housing developments....
...living in the village in 1970. By 1980 the population had grown to nearly 9,403, and in 2000 the...
...In 1970, virtually the village's entire population was white. By 1980, 7 percent of the population...
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Romeoville, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...half of the twentieth century, Romeoville's population decreased, dropping below 150 in 1950. During...
...annexed as part of Romeoville. The village's population soared to more than 3,500 in 1960. Buoyed by...
...Interstate 55 (Stevenson Expressway ), the population of Romeoville continued to rise, and by 1970...
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Skokie, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...they are headquartered in Skokie. Although the population of Skokie had been dropping since reaching...
...laid out in the 1920s, and by 1970 the population reached 68,627. Many of the new inhabitants of...
...2000 census reported that 21 percent of Skokie's population was Asian, with 6 percent Hispanic and 5...
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Tinley Park, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...created by local businessmen. The village had a population of 300 by 1900 and grew very slowly until...
...by the affordable housing. From 1950 the population doubled every decade until 1980, and Tinley Park...
...the goal of maintaining a livable community. Population had grown to 48,401 by 2000. Tinley Park's...
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