Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10

The urban population Of Illinois
amounting TO 3,476.92s inhabitants
Gil per cent Of the total population, is
contained in 242 cities, 81 towns and
III villages. OF the total population,
38.3 per cent is classed as rural, IL per
cent being contained in $50 incorpora-
ted places of less than $500 inhabi-
tants each. and 2C.4 per cent in unln-
corporared communities. The 920
places OF less than $500 inhabitants
each have an aggregate population OF
C75.2+O These places comprise 2ZZ
having from 900 to $500 inhabitants
each. with a combined population OF
347 1858; 275 having from 500 10 1,O00
inha bitants each. with cimbined pop
ulation of 1852. and 423 having less
than 500 inhabitants each, with COM
bined population OF 134,690.
FARMS HAVE 3s.3 PER CENT.
The rural population of the state in
1910 was 2,161,662 or 38.3 per cent OF
the total
There are 6S counties having larg-
er proportion and seven counties hav-
/ ing smaller proportion of urban pop
ulation in 1910 than in 1900, while %
/ counties were wholly rural at both
/ censuses Four counties which were
wholly rural in 1910 were partly ur-
/ ban in 1900. Cook county, containing
/ the city of Chicago, has the largest pro-
/ portion of urban population, namely,
! 9G5 per cent, and Rock Island county,
with 72.7 per cent. contains the next
/ largest proportion of urban population.
In IA counties more than so per cent
of population was urban in 1910.
a COMPARISON of the total popula-
/ ton in 1910 of places having popula-
ton of not less than $500 each with
the total population of the same places
in 1900 shows an increase of 304 per
/ cent, while the population living in
rural territory shows an increase of
only 0.3 per cent Urban population
. thus increased nearly twice as rapidly
as that of the state as a whole. There
were 6S counties in which the popula-
! ton living in rural territory decreas-
ed. but only five counties in which
there was a decrease in urban popu-
Iation.
LARGER CITIES GAIN FASTER.
I The population of the city of Chicago
and of the group of other places hav-
ing $4,000 inhabitants or more increas-
ed nearly twice as fast and that of the
group of places having from $500 to
$4,000 inhabitants more than twice as
fast as that of the state as a whole.
The population in rural territory in
creased GAS. or nearly 0.3 per cent.
7 OF the increase in the total population
of the state during the decade, namely,
] S17,041, more than one-half was in the
city Of Chicago.
The population of Illinois is $685.
591, and represents an increase dur
ing the last decade of S17,O41, or 16.9
per cent, the smallest relative increase
shown at any census.
During the same period the total
population Of continental United States
increased 81 per cent.
CHICAGO HAS 2,ISS,2s3.
Illinois has 242 cities. The popula-
ton of Chicago is 2,1S5 ,2S3 Peoria,
the second city. has a population of
| 66,950 East ST Louis and Springfield
have 5S,547 and 81, 67S inhabitants, re-
! spectiveIy. OF the remaining cities
eight have from $4,000 to $4,000, IS
! from 10000 to $4,000. Sc from 5000 to
10000, 81 from $500 to 5000, and lis
less than $500 inhabitants. The aggre-
gate population of the 242 cities is g.
T562,714. or 63.2 per cent of the total
population of the state
OF the cities Of over $500 population
East ST Louis shows the highest per
cent of increase during the last decade.
namely. ga per cent. and Quincy the
lowest, nine-tenths of l per cent.