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1. www.census.gov › history › wwwOctober 2021 - History - U.S. Census Bureau

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   You can learn more about Chicago and the 1871 "Great Chicago Fire" using census data and records. For example: The name "Chicago" was first recorded in 1688 by French soldier Henri Joutel during a Mississippi River expedition led by Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Joutel wrote the name as "Chicagou"—the Algonquian word meaning "onion ...

2. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › how-chicagoHow Chicago Transformed From a Midwestern Outpost Town to a ...

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   Oct 12, 2018 · In 1833, Chicago was a wilderness outpost of just 350 residents, clumped around a small military fort on soggy land where the Chicago River trickled into Lake Michigan.

3. www.archives.gov › research › censusSearch Census Records Online and Other Resources

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   Jan 5, 2024 · Search Census Records Online and Other Resources. Federal Census records have been digitized by several of NARA's partners, and will eventually be available as well through the National Archives Catalog. Click on a Census year to start your search.

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4. www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org › pages › 962Demography - Encyclopedia of Chicago

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   Chicago's population peaked at 3,621,092 in the census of 1950 and has slipped since then; in 2000 it was 2,896,016. But that was just the core city; together with the suburbs, the metropolitan area from Kenosha southward around Lake Michigan beyond Gary was home to 9,157,540 people in 2000.

5. www.lib.uchicago.edu › e › collectionsBefore and After the Fire: Chicago in the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s

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   The Union Stockyards (1865), the South Works steel mills (1875), and the Pullman railway-car plant (early 1880s) were iconic examples. Growth was only barely interrupted by the catastrophic fire of 1871 in which perhaps a quarter of Chicago's dwellings and most of its business district were burned.

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   Chicago / drawn from Davie's atlas with ...	Chicago (Ill.)--Maps.	Scale [1:6,000]. Chicago : Chas. Shober, ...
   Guide map of Chicago / engr. and ...	Chicago (Ill.)--Maps.	Scale [ca. 1:24,000]. Chicago : Chas.
   Chicago and environs : compiled and drawn ...	Chicago (Ill.)--Maps.	Scale [ca. 1:12,000]. Chicago : J. Van ...
   Chicago.	Chicago (Ill.)--Maps. Great Fire, ...	Scale [ca. 1:32,000]. [S.l. : s.n., ca.

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6. www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org › pages › 500004Year Page: 1871

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   In 1871, less than 40 years after its incorporation, Chicago had mushroomed from a pioneer outpost to a thriving and ever-expanding urban hub. Its modern incarnation was already obvious: a central business district, distinct industrial areas, and neighborhoods segregated by ethnicity and class.

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   Why did Chicago start a new building code in 1871?

   • Growth was only barely interrupted by the catastrophic fire of 1871 in which perhaps a quarter of Chicago's dwellings and most of its business district were burned. The Fire did force the city to establish a new building code and perhaps encouraged a new self-consciousness about planning.

   Before and After the Fire: Chicago in the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s

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   What was Chicago like in 1871?

   • In 1871, Chicago was already a thriving and ever-expanding urban hub, less than 40 years after its incorporation. It had mushroomed from a pioneer outpost and was characterized by a central business district, distinct industrial areas, and neighborhoods segregated by ethnicity and class.

   Year Page: 1871 - Encyclopedia of Chicago

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   How many people live in Chicago?

   • Numbers kept climbing, though never again that fast. Chicago's population peaked at 3,621,092 in the census of 1950 and has slipped since then; in 2000 it was 2,896,016. But that was just the core city; together with the suburbs, the metropolitan area from Kenosha southward around Lake Michigan beyond Gary was home to 9,157,540 people in 2000.

   Demography - Encyclopedia of Chicago

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   How did Chicago become a man-made city?

   • Between the 1830s and 1900, lawmakers, engineers, and thousands of long-forgotten laborers created a new, manmade geography for Chicago—building a canal and sewers, raising city streets, and even reversing a river.

   How Chicago Transformed From a Midwestern Outpost Town to a Towe…

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8. www.archives.gov › files › researchCensus Records - National Archives

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   View digitized Census Records online through one of our partners, ancestry.com or familysearch.org. ( Familysearch.org is free-of-charge. Ancestry.com is available free-of-charge at the National Archives facilities nationwide and through many libraries, otherwise by subscription.)