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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