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Chicago was the "Promised Land" to Black Southerners. 500,000 African Americans moved to Chicago. [14] The Black population in Chicago significantly increased in the early to mid-1900s, due to the Great Migration out of the South. While African Americans made up less than two percent of the city's population in 1910, by 1960 the city was nearly ...
The 1860 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Illinois voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
Since 1860, and excluding unreconstructed Southern states in 1868 and 1872, there have been two occasions where a Republican presidential candidate failed to poll votes in every state [h], while national Democratic candidates have failed to appear on all state ballots in three elections since the introduction of the secret ballot, though in all ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Illinois, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1818, Illinois has participated in every U.S. presidential election. From 1896 to 1996, Illinois was a bellwether state, voting for the winner of the presidential election 24 of 26 times, the exceptions being 1916 and 1976.
Former President Donald Trump is planning to attend the National Association of Black Journalists' annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday. In a statement released Monday night, the Trump ...
An historic switch in the presidential ticket. A polling shift. And a still-undefined nominee. That’s the backdrop to this week’s Democratic convention.
He got a meager 11% of the Black vote in 2004, a showing that was only marginally better than that of earlier Republican presidential candidates. For all of Trump’s checkered history with Black ...
Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]