Skokie

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Skokie
Holocaust Museum in Skokie
Holocaust Museum in Skokie
Location in Illinois
Skokie (Illinois)
Skokie
Skokie
Basic data
Foundation : 1888
State : United States
State : Illinois
County : Cook County
Coordinates : 42 ° 2 ′  N , 87 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 2 ′  N , 87 ° 44 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 66,659 (status: 2009)
9,572,572 (status: 2010)
Population density : 2,506 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 26.6 km 2  (approx. 10 mi 2 ) of
which 26.6 km 2  (approx. 10 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 185 m
Postcodes : 60076, 60077, 60203
Area code : +1 847, 224
FIPS : 17-70122
GNIS ID : 418578
Website : www.skokie.org
Mayor : George Van Dusen
Summer 2006 0882.jpg
1925 Chicago style house

Skokie is a village in Cook County in the northeast of the US -amerikanischen state of Illinois . Skokie is a northern suburb of Chicago and part of the Chicago metropolitan area .

In 2000 Skokie had 63,348 inhabitants; by 2009 the population has increased to 66,659.

Geography and traffic

Skokie is located 5.5 km east of Lake Michigan on the west bank of the North Shore Channel at 42 ° 2'13 "north latitude and 87 ° 44'24" west longitude. The city extends over 26.6 km², which consists entirely of land.

Interstate 94 , which connects Chicago with Milwaukee , runs north-south on the eastern edge of the town . US Highway 41 , which crosses Illinois State Route 58 in the center , runs parallel through the village .

The Yellow Line , a rapid transit line operated by the Chicago Transit Authority , ends in Skokie.

Skokie is 16 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. Milwaukee is 122 miles north, Rockford 76 miles west and Aurora 47 miles southwest.

history

In 1888 the self-governing parish Niles Center was founded, which was renamed Niles Center around 1910. Due to confusion with the city of Niles , Niles Center was renamed Skokie on November 15, 1940.

There was a first construction boom in the 1920s. In the 1950s, the city grew again with new arrivals from Chicago; Numerous Jews, including many survivors of the Holocaust , also settled here. The Hebrew Theological College , a private university founded by Orthodox Jews in Chicago in 1921 , moved to Skokie in 1958 and has been called Skokie Yeshiva ever since .

In 1967 Skokie was twinned with Porbandar in India , the birthplace of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi . On October 2, 2004, a Gandhi statue was erected in Skokie.

The Collin case

In 1977 the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) , a split-off from the American Nazi Party led by Frank Collin , wanted to demonstrate in Skokie, but the city government prohibited this. Demonstrations in Chicago were made impossible by unfulfillable requirements on the part of Illinois. The Nazis sued in vain county and state court Illinois. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the NSPA in the Supreme Court , which ordered a hearing in Illinois. In the case of the National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skoki e decided that the NSPA requirements violated the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution. The NSPA finally demonstrated three times in Illinois in 1978, but decided not to march through Skokie because their goal of being publicly noticed in the media had been achieved through the trials. Frank Collin was a son of Max Simon Collin (original surname: Cohen), a Holocaust survivor who is said to have fathered his son in the Dachau concentration camp . Collin hated his father and therefore turned to National Socialism. He was arrested for sexual activities with two ten year old boys and served three years in prison from 1979. Then he became an esoteric writer. The appearance of neo-Nazis in SA uniforms in Illinois was satirically processed in the 1980 film Blues Brothers . In 1981 the film Skokie was shot about the events with the neo-Nazis .

On April 19, 2009, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie opened in response to the NSPA dispute.

Skokie in the movie

The following films were shot in Skokie:

Demographic data

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1900 529 -
1910 568 7.4%
1920 763 34.3%
1930 5007 556.2%
1940 7172 43.2%
1950 14,832 106.8%
1960 59,364 300.2%
1970 68,627 15.6%
1980 60,278 -12.2%
1990 59,432 -1.4%
2000 63,348 6.6%
2009 estimate 66,659 5.2%
Source:

In the official census in 2000 , the population was 63,348. These were distributed to 23,223 households in 17,045 families. The population density was 2,474.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. There were 23,687 residential buildings, which corresponded to a building density of 925.3 buildings per square kilometer.

The population in 2000 was 68.9 percent white , 4.5 percent African American , 0.2 percent Native American , 21.3 percent Asian, and 1.9 percent other. 3.2 percent said they came from at least two of these groups. 5.7 percent of the population were Hispanics from any of the above groups.

23.0 percent were under 18 years of age, 7.0 percent between 18 and 24, 25.0 percent between 25 and 44, 25.5 percent between 45 and 64 and 19.6 percent 65 and over. The mean age was 42 years. For every 100 women over the age of 18, there were statistically 85.2 men.

The median income per household was 57,375  US dollars  (USD), the median family income 68,252 USD. The median income for men was $ 44,869 and that for women was $ 33,051. The per capita income was $ 27,136. Around 4.2 percent of families and 5.4 percent of the total population had their income below the poverty line .

Since the 1950s, Skokie has been home to a large Jewish community. Today the population composition is very heterogeneous. Around 100 different languages ​​are spoken in Skokie.

Personalities

literature

  • Philippa Strum: When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate , University Press of Kansas (31 Mar 1999), ISBN 0700609415
  • Richard Whittingham: Skokie, 1888–1988: A centennial history , Village of Skokie (1988)
  • James Byron Kenyon: The industrialization of the Skokie area , University Of Chicago Press (1954)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Skokie, Illinois ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quickfacts.census.gov
  2. ↑ Google Maps: Skokie, IL - Lake Michigan
  3. ↑ Google Maps: Skokie, IL - Chicago, IL
  4. ↑ Google Maps: Skokie, IL - Milwaukee, WI
  5. ^ Google Maps: Skokie, IL - Rockford, IL
  6. ↑ Google Maps: Skokie, IL - Aurora, IL
  7. ↑ The Blues Brothers and the American Constitutional Protection of Hate Speech: Teaching the Meaning of the First Amendment to Foreign Audiences by Julien Mailland (English)
  8. ↑ Illinois Holocaust Museum Opens In Skokie: Bill Clinton, Elie Wiesel Address Crowd Of Thousands . In: The Huffington Post , April 19, 2009. Retrieved December 29, 2010. 
  9. ↑ Home Alone 3 (1997) - Filming locations
  10. ↑ US Census factfinder.census.gov
  11. ^ US Census Bureau - Skokie, Illinois
  12. ↑ SkokieNet Community Information Network | Building Community and Making Connections in Skokie, Illinois

Web links

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