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Before the 1930s, the Democratic Party in Chicago was divided along ethnic lines - the Irish, Polish, Italian, and other groups each controlled politics in their neighborhoods. Under the leadership of Anton Cermak , the party consolidated its ethnic bases into one large organization.
There is a Romanian community in Chicago. [72] Other European ethnic groups in Chicago are Slovaks, [73] Macedonians, [74] Estonians, [75] Latvians, [76] Slovenes, [77] Dutch, [78] Spaniards [79] and Norwegians. [80] There is a Belgian community in Chicago. [81] There is a Portuguese community in Chicago. [82] There is a Luxembourger community ...
Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
African-American history in Chicago (1 C, 85 P, 1 F) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Chicago" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The beloved 16th president, always ranked among the top three leaders, guided the U.S. through the Civil War, to the Emancipation Proclamation, to Reconstruction.
The ethnic makeup of the population is 29.8% Hispanic or Latino, with 70.2% belonging to a non-Hispanic or Latino background. [3] English is the primary language of the city. Christianity is the predominant faith. During its first century as a city, Chicago grew at a rate that ranked among the fastest growing in the world.
As part of C-SPAN's third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, almost 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public ...
Presidential scholars unveiled an official ranking of U.S. presidents, placing Donald Trump and Joe Biden at opposite ends of the list. The ranking resulted from the 2024 Presidential Greatness ...