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During its first century as a city, Chicago grew at a rate that ranked among the fastest growing in the world.
Within the span of forty years, the city's population grew from slightly under 30,000 to over 1 million by 1890.
By the close of the 19th century, Chicago was the fifth largest city in the world, and the largest of the cities that did not exist at the dawn of the century.
Within fifty years of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population had tripled to over 3 million.
At the 2007 U.S.
Census estimates, Chicago's populaion was: .
38.9% White (30.9% non-Hispanic-White) .
35.6% Black or African American .
0.5% American Indian and Alaska Native .
5.3% Asian .
0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander .
21.3% some other race .
1.6% two or more races .
28.1% Hispanic or Latino (of any race) .
As of the 2000 census, there were 2,896,016 people, 1,061,928 households, and 632,909 families residing within Chicago.
More than half the population of the state of Illinois lives in the Chicago metropolitan area.
The population density of the city itself was 12,750.3 people per square mile (4,923.0/km²), making it one of the nation's most densely populated cities.
There were 1,152,868 housing units at an average density of 5,075.8 per square mile (1,959.8/km²).
Of the 1,061,928 households, 28.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.1% were married couples living together, 18.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.4% were non-families.
The median income for a household in the city was $38,625, and the median income for a family was $46,748.
Males had a median income of $35,907 versus $30,536 for females.
Below the poverty line are 19.6% of the population and 16.6% of the families.
The racial makeup of the city was 41.97% White (31.32% White Non-Hispanic), 36.77% African American, 4.35% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.36% Native American, 13.58% from other races, and 2.92% from two or more races.
26.02% of the population were Hispanic of any race.
21.72% of the population was foreign born; of this, 56.29% came from Latin America, 23.13% from Europe, 17.96% from Asia and 2.62% from other parts of the world.
The main ethnic groups in Chicago are African American, Irish, German, Italian, Polish, English, Bulgarian, Greek, Chinese, Mexican, Serbian, Ukrainian and Puerto Rican.
Chicago's Irish American population is on the South Side.
Many of Chicago's politicians have come from this massive Irish population, including the current mayor, Richard M.
Daley.
Poles in Chicago constitute the largest ethnically Polish population outside of the Polish capital, Warsaw, making it one of the most important Polonia centers, a fact that the city celebrates every Labor Day weekend at the Taste of Polonia Festival in Jefferson Park.
The Chicago Metropolitan area is also becoming a major center for Indian Americans and South Asian Americans.
Chicago has the third largest South Asian American population in the country, after New York City and San Francisco.
Religion
Because of Chicago's large multi-ethnic population, a wide variety of faiths are practiced.
Various Christian denominations such as diverse Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant churches are found throughout the area along with adherents of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Bahá'í, Sufism and others.
In addition, it should be noted that there is a surprising number of adherents of Pagan paths that live in this city.
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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