Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...
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The early immigrants - Cleveland’s German Cultural Garden
As the city grew, the German population expanded. German immigrants accounted for a third of Cleveland’s growth in the 1840s and remained the most significant group arriving in the city annually ...