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Fort Dearborn depicted as in 1831, sketched 1850s although the accuracy of the sketch was debated soon after it appeared.. The first non-native settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Frenchman of European and African descent, [11] who built a farm at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1788 to 1790 [a].
The Germans of Chicago. Stipes Pub. Co., 1976. - Available in Snippet view at Google Books; Keil, Hartmut, and John B. Jentz (editors). German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I. University of Illinois Press, 1988. ISBN 0252014588, 9780252014581. Tischauser, Leslie Vincent.
Amezcua, Mike. "A machine in the barrio: Chicago’s conservative colonia and the remaking of Latino politics in the 1960s and 1970s." The Sixties 12.1 (2019): 95-120. Andrade, Juan, Jr. "A Historical Survey of Mexican Immigration to the U.S. and an Oral History of the Mexican Settlement in Chicago, 1920–1990" (Ph.D. diss.).
CHICAGO (CBS) — Targeted immigration enforcement operations by multiple agencies were launched in Chicago Sunday, with top Trump administration officials in the city to oversee the operation.
Due to immigration restrictions in the 1920s, personnel managers in Chicago encouraged working-class migrants from the Upland South to fill those jobs. [1] The culture of Chicago has been significantly influenced by the culture, music, and politics of Appalachia. The majority of people of Appalachian heritage in Chicago are white or black ...
German Americans made up 7.3% of the population, and numbered at 199,789; Irish Americans also made up 7.3% of the population, and numbered at 199,294. Polish Americans now made up 6.7% of Chicago's population, and numbered at 182,064. [5] Polish is the fourth most widely spoken language in Chicago behind English, Spanish, and Mandarin. [6]
(The Center Square) – The city of Chicago is doubling down on the city’s migrant sanctuary status ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. ... U.S. Immigration and ...
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