Pottawatomie chiefs of all time
'The Potawatomi were semi-sedentary, living in agricultural villages in summer and separating into smaller family groups in autumn as they moved to their winter hunting grounds. Men hunted and fished; women planted and harvested crops and collected wild plant foods. Village dwellings were large bark-covered houses or dome-shaped wickiups or wigwams; these were also used at winter sites. The Potawatomi were divided into several politically independent territorial bands that were linked by kinship and language. Clans whose members traced their descent from a common ancestor through the male line were distributed among the various bands, and clan intermarriage served to unify each band. Crowded by settlers, the Potawatomi ceded their lands and moved west of the Mississippi River at the beginning of the 19th century. Many tribal members who resided in Indiana refused to leave until they were driven out by the U.S. military, and some of them escaped into Canada. In 1846 most Potawatomi were again displaced, this time to a Kansas reservation where they became known as the Prairie band. Over the course of their westerly movements, the tribe borrowed cultural features from the Plains Indians, notably communal bison hunts.' Read more about them with the following link - Britiannica
Ancient Chicago Indian Mounds
The second important wave between 1846 and 1860 led to a
great expansion in the population of Luxembourger Americans. Moving westward,
they settled in Illinois. A large number settled in Chicago while smaller, yet
significant, numbers settled in Rogers Park, Rosehill, Evanston, Aurora, and
what is now Skokie. Like many long-settled groups in the United States, very
few Luxembourger Americans can speak the language of their ancestors. Despite
this, however, a considerable number still practice traditions handed down
through the generations. Even though they have been interacting for over a
century with German Americans, many of these people continue to identify
themselves as being Luxembourger.
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Current Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in orange
'In 1848, only 40 Swedes lived in Chicago, and that population grew slowly. Many of these earliest settlers came to work on the Illinois & Michigan Canal. Although the Swedish settlement remained small for the next two decades, reaching 816 people in 1860 and 6,154 in 1870, it represented the largest single cluster of Swedes in the United States. During the 1870s, the Swedish population in the city doubled, outnumbered only by the German, Irish, and British immigrant groups. These early Swedish settlers established three distinct ethnic enclaves. The largest emerged north of the Chicago River on the Near North Side and became known as Swede Town.' The Swedes settled in an area called SwedeTown in Chicago then later established enclaves at Belmont/Clark and Clark/Foster in the former Community of Lake View Township called Andersonville.
text below - Peasant Maids, City Women:
European Countryside to Urban America
The Japanese-American
Nisei & Issei
The first large wave of migration to Chicago came in the
late 1940s, when many settled in the La Clark neighborhood around Dearborn, La
Salle and Clark Streets just north of downtown Chicago. Starting in 1946, many
people were recruited by Castle Barton Associates and other companies as
low-wage, non-union foundry workers and domestic workers in hotels and private
homes. As soon as they were established in Chicago, many were joined by their
spouses and families. The Puerto Rican neighborhoods of Wicker Park and Lincoln
were one large neighborhood that became divided when the Kennedy Expressway was
built in the late 1950s.
By the 1960s, Chicago's Puerto Rican community was
displaced by urban redevelopment; they moved north and west to Old Town,
Lincoln Park, Lake View, and Wicker Park, later centering in West Town and
Humboldt Park on the city's West Side. They first moved into nearby LincolnPark just over the Chicago River. Puerto Rican settlement also occurred in
Lawndale, also on the city's West Side.
Assistance in 1969
When Lake View was a township/city there was a small section of that was settled along the Chicago River by Poles for the purpose of employment in its manufacturing area
