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Chicago has a large Czech population [1] (colloquially known as "Czechcagoans"). As of 2000, Chicago had the largest Czech population among US metropolitan areas, and Illinois had the second-largest Czech-American population after Texas. [2] There are 72,058 residents of Czech heritage living in the greater Chicago area as of 2023. [3]
At the turn of the 20th century, Chicago was the third-largest Czech city in the world, after Prague and Vienna. [30] There are approximately 14,000 Ukrainians living within the Chicago city limits. [31] Chicago has a small community of Swedish Americans, who make up 0.9% of Chicago's population and number at 23,990. [32]
As of the 2010 census, [1] there were 2,695,598 people with 1,045,560 households residing within Chicago. More than half the population of the state of Illinois lives in the Chicago metropolitan area. Chicago is also one of the US's most densely populated major cities. The racial composition of the city was: 45.0% White (31.7% non-Hispanic whites);
Demographics shifted in 1890 towards immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with many Czech cultural institutions and churches established in the area. The Czech in the area migrated towards the suburbs until a new influx of residents, Jewish former residents of Maxwell Street , became the majority around 1918 before moving northward ...
CHICAGO — Chicago grew by about 50,000 residents over the last decade, according to 2020 U.S. Census data released Thursday. The decennial population count put Chicago’s total at 2,746,388 ...
In 1970, Latinos became the majority population in Pilsen, with about 25,000 people out of the community's 43,341 people surpassing the population of people of Eastern European descent. In particular, Mexicans made up about 36% of the residents of Pilsen in 1973. [7] In the 1980s, the Mexican-origin population grew.
In the late 19th century Pilsen was inhabited by Czech immigrants who named the district after Plzeň (German: Pilsen), the fourth largest city in today's Czech Republic. The population also included in smaller numbers other ethnic groups from Austria-Hungary including Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats and Austrians, as well as immigrants of Polish and ...
It is estimated that the population of the Czech lands declined by a third. [46] The 18th and 19th century is characterized by the Czech National Revival, focusing to revive Czech culture and national identity. Since the turn of the 20th century, Chicago is the city with the third largest Czech population, after Prague and Vienna. [47] [48]