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Investigating the Overlooked

Region What Who For Analysis
Immigration Trends
Cook County (IL)
Top countries of origin for this county's foreign-born population, decade by decade, 1900-1960 -- the same IPUMS NHGIS census tables behind Population Trends, read for country-of-birth instead of race. No comparable county-level series exists past 1960 in this data (same real gap Population Trends names for its own 1960-2023 span).
1960
1,757,392 foreign-born residents on file this year
Poland
320,729
Germany
237,016
Italy
190,646
U.S.S.R.
121,765
Ireland (Eire)
104,848
1950
633,216 foreign-born residents on file this year
Poland
102,840
Germany
68,798
Italy
64,692
The U.S.S.R.
56,064
Czechoslovakia
37,249
1940
772,148 foreign-born residents on file this year
Poland
129,212
Germany
98,353
Italy
76,304
Russia (U.S.S.R.)
69,866
Sweden
53,006
1930
955,245 foreign-born residents on file this year
Poland
161,399
Germany
131,418
Italy
84,531
Russia
81,972
Sweden
74,222
1920
889,281 foreign-born residents on file this year
Poland
148,268
Germany
129,216
Russia
107,307
Italy
66,238
Sweden
64,703
1910
876,392 foreign-born residents on file this year
Germany
203,315
Austria
138,513
Russia
128,369
Sweden
68,775
Ireland
68,688
1900
659,058 foreign-born residents on file this year
Germany
189,653
Ireland
76,393
Sweden
52,721
Bohemia
36,690
Poland (German)
34,285