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Originally Posted by Randomguy34

Didn't realize 30k Ukrainians moved to the city. Including the 20k Venezuelans who moved here, that's 50k new people in the past year and a half: https://abc7chicago.com/venezuelan-m...news/13982778/

Chicago and Canada has a natural large population of Ukrainians.
My grandparents moved to Chicago in the 20's from a rock scrabble farm town that took whole Ukrainian villages in and relocated them to the prairie providences. In my family's case from Roblin Manitoba.

And yes they did move to and live in Ukrainian Village hood where my father was born.

Lots have diverted out of that hood but Chicagoland still has a lot of Ukies. So Chicagoland a natural place to find people in common.

I'm one of them, at least 75% ethnically.


Russians and Ukrainians are the same Slavic race. Which is why I hate this war so much. Brother vs Brother


https://www.myjournalcourier.com/new...s-17018740.php





Number of Ukrainians, Russians in Illinois among nation's largest

Tom Emery

Contributor
March 22, 2022

Illinois has some of the largest numbers of both Ukrainians and Russians in the nation.

Illinois has the fifth-most Ukrainian-Americans of any U.S. state, with 47,623. The overwhelming majority of those are in the Chicago metropolitan area, which ranks third nationally in Ukrainian population.


Many live in Ukrainian Village on the near west side, which boasts one of the highest concentrations of the ethnicity in the U.S. and is home to the Ukrainian National Museum and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art.

Other Illinois cities with high clusters of Ukrainians include Buffalo Grove, Wheeling, Hainesville, Northbrook and Vernon Hills.

In 2019, there were an estimated 1.01 million Americans of Ukrainian descent, the second-largest total outside the Eastern Bloc, trailing only Canada.

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Russian-Americans also are prevalent, ranking 19th in the U.S. among ethnic groups, with 2.9 million. Some 16% of those are in Illinois, the third-highest in the nation and behind only New York and California.

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https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/...-mexico-border


Why Ukrainian and Latino migrations to Chicago worked out so differently


Chicago has absorbed more than 30,000 Ukrainian refugees over the last 18 months with little controversy, but the arrival of 19,000 Latino migrants over roughly the same period has triggered a crisis in the city.

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