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Chicago Muslims and the Transformation of American Islam: Immigrants, African Americans, and the Building of the American Ummah (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Philpott, Thomas Lee. The Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle Class Reform, Chicago, 1880–1930 (Oxford UP, 1978).
The Chicago Black Renaissance was influenced by two major social and economic conditions: the Great Migration and the Great Depression. The Great Migration brought tens of thousands of African Americans from the south to Chicago. Between 1910 and 1930 the African American population increased from 44,000 to 230,000. [8]
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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 ...
African Americans had a long history in Chicago, with the city sending Illinois's first African-American representative, John W. E. Thomas, to the state legislature in 1876, but even so, the community had been relatively small through the 19th century. While blacks in 1900 were only about one percent of the total population of a city that had ...
Chicago gangbangers rage against newly arrived Venezuelan migrants as Tren de Aragua moves in: ‘City is going to go up in flames’ ... are the last straw for the struggling African-American ...
Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance limits local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities in most cases. The ordinance does not stop federal authorities from doing work ...
Indeed, from 1980 - 2000, the immigrant population of the Chicago PMSA nearly doubled (+91%) - primarily driven by immigration from Mexico. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] As early as the 1990s, however, observers noted that the suburbs began absorbing a larger amount of immigrants than the central city, which traditionally served as the funnel through which new ...