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Goethe Monument dedicated by the Germans of Chicago. Erected in 1913. German immigration decreased in the 20th century due to increases in the German economy and new restrictions on immigration. [5] In 1914, there were 191,168 people born in Germany living in Chicago; this was the peak number of German-born people in Chicago. [1]
Chicago has a small community of Swedish Americans, who make up 0.9% of Chicago's population and number at 23,990. [32] After the Great Chicago Fire, many Swedish carpenters helped to rebuild the city, which led to the saying "the Swedes built Chicago." [33] Swedish influence is evident in Andersonville on the far north side.
Illinois Staats-Zeitung ' s 1871 building in Chicago, one of the largest German language newspapers in the 19th century. In the period from the 1830s until the First World War, dozens of German-language newspapers in the United States were published.
Many Germans in late 19th century cities were communists; Germans played a significant role in the labor union movement. [86] [87] A few were anarchists. [88] Eight of the forty-two anarchist defendants in the Haymarket Affair of 1886 in Chicago were German.
Dieter Dengler – German born United States Navy Naval aviator during the Vietnam War; Hubert Dilger – decorated artillerist in the Union Army during the American Civil War; Walter Dornberger – leader of Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center, brought to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip
2.5.8 German Americans. 2.5.9 Greek ... More than half the population of the state of Illinois lives in the Chicago metropolitan area. ... In 2006 there were perhaps ...
Throughout much of the 19th century, there were fierce debates in many large American metropolitan areas with German immigrant communities, such as Chicago and St. Louis to determine whether public schools should offer German-language education. The issue was of considerable local interest, as German-speaking families overwhelmingly sent their ...
German Americans made up 7.3% of the population, and numbered at 199,789; Irish Americans also made up 7.3% of the population, and numbered at 199,294. Polish Americans now made up 6.7% of Chicago's population, and numbered at 182,064. [5] Polish is the fourth most widely spoken language in Chicago behind English, Spanish, and Mandarin. [6]