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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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Illinois, Raymond E. Hauser(
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) ...summer villages, or subtribes, but a devastating population decline left only a few of these groups...
...Moingwena, and Tamaroa. As the tribe lost population, it moved the center of its territory southwest...
...its confluence with the Missouri. Conservative population estimates count perhaps as many as 13,000...
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Niles, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...at the time of the village's incorporation, population was 500. The name of Niles was probably taken...
...immigrants from Chicago. In the 1930s Niles's population of 2,135 included 800 Polish orphans in St....
...generating over $7 million in taxes. Niles's population totaled 30,068 in 2000; 83 percent were...
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Northlake, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Northlake in 1949. In 1953 the estimated population was 9,000. The Tri-State Tollway at the city's...
...early 1970s, roughly equaling the city's population, but by the early 1990s, the company had reduced...
...sewers, and water lines were overhauled. Population in 1990 was at 12,505 with people of German ,...
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Phoenix, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...city with no saloons . By 1900 it boasted a population of 5,395 and industries employing 1,700. Many...
...of Phoenix. The growing African American population in Phoenix led to the community's second great...
...business. The remainder of the village's population was primarily African American. Since 1960 the...
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Food Processing: Local Market, Bruce Kraig(
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) ...number of Chicago's food producers grew with rising population, their character changed according to...
...a key to local food production. The Chinese population required more “ authentic” Chinese products....
...Chicago's Latino communities. The Mexican population grew rapidly after 1960. Pilsen soon sprouted...
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Willowbrook, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...ranch, and split-level homes. The 1980 population of 4,953 grew to 8,598 in 1990 but increased by...
...less than 400 in the 1990s. The 2000 population was 85 percent white, 10 percent Asian, 4 percent...
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Coal City, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...in postwar Coal City. The village had a population of 4,797 in 2000. Much of the landscape around...
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Elmwood Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier(
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) ...village functions as well as retail space. Population expanded again after World War II, increasing...
...Elmwood Park experienced its greatest boom in population between 1920 and 1928. During this boom,...
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Mokena, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...When the village was incorporated in 1880, its population was 522; in 1940, it had increased to only...
...and, in 1968, by Interstate 80. Mokena's population grew from 903 in 1950, to 1,643 in 1970, to...
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Mexicans, Gabriela F. Arredondo and Derek Vaillant(
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) ...the Yards area. This largely male Mexican population lived amid several large Eastern and Southern...
...In the decade of the 1930s, the Mexican population in the Chicago area was cut nearly in half. By...
...Gary , and Blue Island expanded, and newer populations sprouted in Arlington Heights , Berwyn , and...
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