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Around 40% of the population of Illinois live in the northeast Cook County alone, and 75% live within the wider Chicago metropolitan area. (Figures from 2020) The population of the state of Illinois is heavily concentrated in Cook County, including the city of Chicago. With 40% of the population, the county has a large impact of state politics. [1]
The voters of Illinois approved the convention's new constitution in a special election held on December 15, 1970. [11] The constitution was approved by a 55.5% majority, with 37% turnout. [12] Seventy-two downstate counties voted against the constitution, but strong majorities in the Chicago area allowed it to pass. [12]
A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). xiv, 200 pp. Lindberg, Richard Carl. To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal : 1855-1960. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.
[n 1] [r 3]: 380 In data from the 1960 census, the state's population had shifted towards suburbs of Chicago, particularly in Cook County, Lake County, and DuPage County. Using population-based apportionment, two districts would be shifted from Chicago to the suburbs, and two more from southern Illinois to northeastern Illinois.
The Constitution of the United States recognizes that the states have the power to set voting requirements. A few states allowed free Black men to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women who owned property. [1] Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population). [2]
Until the American civil rights movement in the 1960s, segregated neighborhoods were enforceable by law. The Fair Housing Act ended discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, color, religion, and national origin. This was the first housing law against discrimination. The passage of this act was contentious.
], Chicago had the largest streetcar system in the world. 1959: Second City comedy troupe active. 1960 February 29: The first of the Playboy Clubs, featuring bunnies, opened in Chicago. September 26: Nixon-Kennedy televised presidential debate held. [28] November 5: The Kennedy Expressway was completed. Population: 3,550,404. [52] 1961
The Democrats obtained a 91-71 majority over the Whigs in the convention, and under the resulting constitution, the Council of Revision was abolished and the governor exercised the veto power directly. [16] Illinois became the last state in the country to eliminate the council of revision system, which New York had abandoned in 1821. [17]