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UNITED STATES i — ILLINOIS
In 1910 the population by sex and birth was :-
-
White
Negro
Asiatic
2,259 133
Indian
Total
Male Female .
2,852,386 2,674,576
56,t<09
52,140
120
68
2,911,674 2,726,917
Total
5,526,962
109,049
2,392
188
5,638,591
Of the total population in 1910, 1,202,560 were foreign-born, of whom 319,182 were from Germany, 93,451 from Ireland, 115,422 from Sweden, 60,333 from England, 45,233 from Canada, 163,020 from Austria, 39,875 from Hungary, 32,913 from Norway, 149,016 from Russia, 72,160 from Italy, 14,402 from Holland, 20,752 from Scotland.
The urban population is 61 7 per cent, of the whole. The largest city in the State, and after New York, the largest in the United States, is Chicago. In 1920 it had a census population of 2,701,705. Other cities of im- portance are Peoria (1920), 76,121 ; East St. Louis, 66,740 ; Springfield (State Capital), 59,183 ; Rockford, 65,651 ; Decatur, 43,818 ; Joliet, 38,372 ; Quincy, 35,978 ; Aurora, 36,265 ; Danville, 33,750 ; EvanSton, 37,215 ; Elgin, 27,431 ; Bloomington, 28,638 ; Moiine, 30,709 ; Rock Island, 35,177 ; Oak Park Village, 39,830 ; Galesburg, 23,834 ; Alton, 24,714 ; Belleville, 24,741 ; Freeport, 19,669 ; Waukegan, 19,199 ; Jacksonville, 15,713 ; Cairo, 15,203 ; Streator, 14,779 ; Kankakee, 16,721 ; Cicerotown, 44,995 ; Champaign, 15,873 ; Kewanee, 16,026 ; Mattoon, 13,449.
Religion, Education. — The churches are, in order of strength, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian.
In Illinois education is free and compulsory for children between seven and 14 years of age. In 1918 the 11,899 public elementary schools had 29,121 teachers, and 968,947 pupils; 840 high schools with 5,476 teachers and 111,571 pupils. Five public normal schools had 260 teachers and 11,539 students in 1918. Total expenditure on public schools (1918), 41,507,153 dollars. There are 29 colleges and universities in the State, the principal being mentioned below, with teachers and students, for 1919 : —
Begun in
Colleges, &c.
Control
Profes- sors, &c
Students
1868 1892 1855 1850 1868 1869 1903 1837 1892 1858
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana .
Univ. of Chicago
North-Western Univ., Bvanston
HI. Wesleyan Univ., Bloomington .
St. Viateur'g Coll., Bourbonnais
Loyola Univ., Chicago ....
James Millikin Univ., Decatur.
Knox College, Galesburg .
(SUte)
(Non-sect.)
(M.E.)
(M.E.)
(R.C)
(R.C.)
(C. Presb.)
(Non-sect.)
(P.M.I
751
344
501
40
45
129
73
30
18 15 27 20
7,157
9,032
4,759
690
280
1,621
1,538
701
250
167
1828 1801 1800
McKemlrce Coll., Lebanon North-western Coll., Naperville Augustana Coll., Rock Island .
(M.E.)
(Ev. Assn.)
(Luth.)
232
392 315
Within the State there are 257 benevolent institutions, hospitals, orphan- ages, homes, and schools for the deaf and blind. Of these institutions 20 arc public, 117 private, and 120 ecclesiastical.
On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was
