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Polish
Most of the settlement for the Polish in Chicago took place after the cival war. The Polish settlement along the North Branch of the Chicago River grew quickly.(early 1900's). The reason many Poles moved to Chicago in the early 1900's was because of tough economic times. -
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German's
Many German's were migrating into America, and into Chicago.
(1820–1930) 5.9 million German's reached the United States. Some only came to make some money and then left. But the skilled German's stayed. -
Lithuanian's
Lithuanian immigrants began to come to the United States in significant numbers in the late nineteenth century when their homeland was still a part of the Russian empire. The majority of the first arrivals could not read or write. Most thought of making some money and then returning home, and therefore displayed little interest in buying land. -
Czech's and Bohemian's.
Czech's came after the railroads had linked the city to the East Coast. Chicago's Czech community followed a common pattern of migration from inner-city working-class neighborhoods to middle-class areas further out and on to the suburbs.(1920's)
Chicago's Czech immigrants possessed few locally marketable skills, and in the early 1900 working at unsteady jobs, notably as lumber shovers in the “lumber district” adjoining Pilsen, they earned less than nearly all other major ethnic group in the city -
Irish.
Chicago emerged as the fourth largest Irish city in America by 1860.*
Chicago's foreign-born Irish population peaked at 73,912 in 1900, but immigration continued steadily until the Immigration Act of 1924 reduced to 18,000 the number of Irish men, women, and children allowed into the United States each year. the Great Depression brought Irish immigration to a virtual halt until the 1950s.
