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The mix of ethnic groups in Chicago has varied over the history of the city, resulting in a diverse community in the twenty-first century. The changes in the ethnicity of the population have reflected the history and mass America, as well as internal demographic changes.
Chicago, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1990 [7] Pop 2000 [8] Pop 2010 [9] Pop 2020 [10 ...
African-American history in Chicago (1 C, 85 P, 1 F) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Chicago" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
[3] [4] However, according to the 2006–2008 American Community Survey, German Americans and Irish Americans each had slightly surpassed Polish Americans as the largest European American ethnic groups in Chicago. 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 ...
In 2001, despite being by far the largest Hispanic and Latino ethnic group in Chicago, Mexicans had some, but less political representation than Puerto Ricans. [14] The situation has changed with steady immigration; Chicago's Latino population now exceeds its Black population, primarily driven by absolute growth in the Mexican community.
The Chicago metropolitan area has a large Indian American population. As of 2023, there were 255,523 Indian Americans (alone or in combination) living in the Chicago area, accounting for more than 2.5% of the total population, making them the largest Asian subgroup in the metropolitan region [1] [2] and the second-largest Indian American population among US metropolitan areas, after the ...
Irish-Americans have had a presence on the South Side since the 19th century. Since the 19th century, the ethnic Irish population in Chicago had been largely Catholic, and largely concentrated on the city's south side. Irish Catholics were often economically disenfranchised compared to other European ethnic groups, and often faced anti-irish sentiment or eth
Although Lithuanians initially settled in areas adjacent to the ethnic group most familiar from their European homeland, the Poles, a pattern consistent with most other immigrant groups in Chicago, the Lithuanian community today is found all over the Chicago metropolitan area; as of 2023 there are 27,547 people of Lithuanian ancestry living in ...