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Population Density by Wards, 1904, Creator: Tenement Inspector(
Historical Source
) ...Population Density by Wards, 1904...
...1904 dramatically displays differences in population density. The numbers are especially high in...
Date Created: 1904,
Date Depicted: 1900
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Populations of Chicago, Suburbs, and Downstate, 1950-2000, (
Historical Source
) ...Populations of Chicago, Suburbs, and Downstate, 1950-2000...
Date Created: 2000,
Date Depicted: 1950-2000
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Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Industry and Population Density Estimates in the Chicago Region), 1919, Creator: Chicago Plan Commission and Cook County Department of Highways(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago Promotional Campaign (Industry and Population Density Estimates in the Chicago Region), 1919...
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
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Changing Origins of Metropolitan Chicago's Foreign-Born Population, (
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) ...Changing Origins of Metropolitan Chicago's Foreign-Born Population...
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Suburbs and Cities as Dual Metropolis, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...the accumulating urban afflictions in 1986: population loss, impoverishment, racial concentration,...
...Jackson has argued that a single process—population deconcentration—has shaped American metropolitan...
...sustained deconcentration. First, Chicago's total population fell below 3 million for the first time...
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Calumet Park, IL, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...which provided revenue for the village. The population reached 1,593 in 1940. After World War II,...
...But direct access to the Loop encouraged a population boom as builders filled the village with small...
...brick houses. As the population expanded, the community became close-knit, with relatives frequently...
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Cook County, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...city took place, however, and by 1990 the city comprised only 55 percent of the county's population....
...Will , McHenry , and Cookcounties. Because of population growth in northeastern Illinois in the...
...its territory, but continued to increase in population. By 1839, it comprised 954 square miles and...
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Oak Forest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...to give the community its strange boundary. The population jumped from 3,724 in 1960 to 17,870...
...in 1970, but leveled off after the population reached 26,096 in 1980....
...Significant commercial and industrial development accompanied this population growth....
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North Chicago, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...industries in addition to others sparked a population boom in the area in the first decades of the...
...of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station . The population reached 47,275 in 1970. As many...
...close in the 1970s, jobs dwindled and the population decreased. Washburn and Moen, one of the city's...
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East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...As East Chicago lost its job base in subsequent decades, population declined, to 32,414 in 2000....
...Europe flocking to its factory jobs, the population of East Chicago soared 460 percent between 1900...
...from 3,411 to 19,098. Over 50 percent of the population were not native born. During World War I ,...
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Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...educated suburbanites. Even the newest upscale developments contain largely blue-collar populations....
...of travel through difficult terrain. So the population rose modestly, from 1,468 in 1840 to 3,991 in...
...cities of East Chicago and Gary contained populations overwhelmingly foreign-born. As a consequence,...
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Bartlett, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...and single-family houses. The 1980s and 1990s brought new population growth and annexations ....
...Bartlett's population soared from 19,373 in 1990 to 36,706 in 2000....
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La Grange, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...surrounding land in order to accommodate a population that had risen from 6,525 in 1920 to 10,103 in...
...and exodus out of Chicago increased, the population of La Grange continued to rise, to nearly 17,814...
...multiple-dwelling units prevented even greater population increases. By 2000, the population of La...
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Avalon Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...professionals. In 1970 Avalon Park reached a population high of 14,412, of whom 83 percent were...
...By 1980 Avalon Park's African American residents made up 96 percent of the population of 13,792....
...Avalon Park's population dropped significantly by the end of the century, falling to 11,147, just...
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Greater Grand Crossing, Wallace Best(
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) ...to 38,644. Although as of 1990 a fifth of the population, 56 percent of which were African American...
...appear in the area to accommodate the steady population increase between 1895 and 1912. There were...
...nineteenth century, by 1920 the community, with a population of 44,538, was largely residential. By...
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Lombard, IL, Elizabeth M. Holland(
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) ...shopping centers were built, and by 1960 the population reached 22,561. Lombard remained primarily...
...and the 200-acre Clearing Industrial District were developed. The population reached 42,322 by 2000....
...constructed in 1870 to serve a growing population. While commuters came, industry also developed....
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Bellwood, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...of a second early subdivision, Bellewood. Bellwood's population grew steadily between 1900 and 1930....
...The 1910 population of 943 doubled by 1920 as more people, many of German and Russian descent, moved...
...the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin in 1957. The population jumped to 8,746 in 1950, then more than doubled...
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Clarendon Hills, IL, Tom Sterling(
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) ...the community's first public swimming pool. The population of Clarendon Hills in 2000 was 7,610....
...district developed to serve the growing population, which included many commuters. Additional...
...in Clarendon Hills followed World War II. Population increased from 933 in 1930 to 5,885 by 1960....
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Gary, IN, Raymond A. Mohl(
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) ...the board of U.S. Steel. Anticipating a large population of steelworkers, Gary Land Company, a U.S....
...city of Gary became home to a rapidly growing population of European immigrants, and, by the 1920s,...
...immigrants from Mexico as well. The city's population grew to about 55,000 in 1920 and over 100,000...
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Logan Square, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...of Chicago's Loop . Long home to immigrant populations, it is now predominantly Hispanic. Logan...
...now Bucktown —was known as Holstein for its population of German factory workers. ) Six years later,...
...Milwaukee Avenue. By 1884, Maplewood's population had reached 6,000. (A second early subdivision,...
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