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As of 2013, the Chicago area has the largest Palestinian American population in the U.S., and that Chicago-area Palestinian-origin people made up 25% of all Palestinian-originating persons in the U.S. [59] In 1995 there were 85,000 persons of Palestinian origin in the Chicago area, making up about 60% of the Arab Americans there; at that time ...
Chicago History Archived January 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine and other overlooked elements at Forgotten Chicago; Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey English translations of 120,000 pages of news articles from the foreign language press from 1855 to 1938. Digital Research Library of Illinois History "Chicago History". Chicago Public Library.
Spinney, Robert G. City of big shoulders: A history of Chicago (Cornell University Press, 2020), broad scholarly survey; Street, Paul. "The 'Best Union Members': Class, Race, Culture, and Black Worker Militancy in Chicago's Stockyards during the 1930s." Journal of American Ethnic History (2000): 18-49. online; Street, Paul.
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Chicago" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... History of the Appalachian people in Chicago; B.
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
CHICAGO — A century ago, Henry Gerber founded America’s first documented gay rights organization in a boardinghouse at 1710 N. Crilly Court in Chicago. It was once part of a complex of ...
Like other European ethnic groups, people left Sweden in search of better economic opportunities during the mid-1800s. In the year 1900, Chicago was the city with the second highest number of Swedes after Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. By then, Swedes in Chicago, most of whom settled in the Andersonville neighborhood, especially in the years following the Great Chicago Fire, had founded the ...
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