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2008
Overview
Immigration and immigrant participation have been among the hallmark features of civic and political life in Chicago for more than a century, from the era of Irish-dominated machines and central European migration in the early twentieth century to the contemporary period, with a weaker and more diverse political machine and immigrants from Mexico, Poland, India, and several other Asian and Latin American countries. Just as in the rest of the United States, immigration to Illinois and the Chicago area grew considerably in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of foreign-born residents in
