The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-28
ILLINOIS SHOWS A
4
LOSS IN NATIVES
Foreign Born White People
On Increase in State
Census Report.
National News Association)

(Natfonal News Assocfation)
WASHINGTON, Feb. ga bulle-
Tin issued by the census bureau dis
closes the following facts concerning
the population Of Illinois:
Native whites are decreasing and
foreign born whites increasing in num-
Der. Most of the foreign born live in
the cities.
The male population is increasing
more rapidly than the female.
There are more natives of other
states in the cities than in the coun-
try.
Children are more numerous in the
rural than in the urban districts.
Illiteracy is decreasing.
There are fewer spinsters than bach
eIors, and more widows than widow
ers.
Portion of Text.
The bulletin in part follows:
"Of the total population of Illinois,
100000, or 46.1 per cent, are native
whites Of native parentage; 1,723,847,
or 40.6 per cent are native whites of
foreign or mixed parentage; 1,202,560,
or 21.3 per cent are foreign born
white, and 100000, or 1.9 per cent are
negroes.
1.-THE corresponding percentages in
1900 were All, BIZ and 1.8 respective
ly only slight changes in the compo-
sition of the population having taken
place during the decade.
"'In most of the 102 counties the pro-
portion of foreign born whites is small
being less than per cent in forty
counties. and exceeding rs per cent in
only six.
more than two-thirds of the foreign
born whites are in Cook county, in
which both this class and the native
whites of foreign mixed parentage con-
stitute a larger proportion of the to-
tai population than in any other coun-
ty (35 and Ais per cent, respective
1y)
Various Counties Represented.
"Of the foreign born white popula.
tion of Illinois persons born in Ger.
many represent 26.5 per cent; Austria,
1876; Russia, 1874; Sweden, SO; Ire
land, 7.8: Italy, 6; England, 5; Cana.
da, 81; Hungary, 33; Norway, 81; all
other countries, 90 per cent.
"Of the total white stock of foreign
origin, which includes persons born
abroad and also having one or both
parents born abroad, Germany con
tributed 347 per cent; Ireland, ia;
Austria, 90; Sweden, 10; Russia, 78;
England, So; Italy, 4; Canada, 81;
Norway, 2-3; Scotland, 1.8; Hungary
1.8; Denmark, IL; Holland, IL pei
cent.
"In the total population of the state
there are 2,911 SAT males and 2,726,917
females, or 1868 males to 100 females
In 1900 the nation was 1865 to 100
Among the native whites the ratio in
1O1.5 to 100, and among foreign born
whites 1918 to 100. In the urban pop
ulation there are 104.9 males to 100 fe
males and in the rural, 1893.
Distribution of Children.
"The urban population shows g
smaller proportion of children thar
the rural and larger proportion o.
persons in the prime Of life. Migra
ton to the city explains this, at leas
in part. OF the urban population 33.G
per cent are from 25 to A years O
age, inclusive, and of the rural popu
1ation, ~ per cent.
in the population IL years Of age
and over 1913 per cent of the males are
single and 30.4 per cent of the fe
males. The percentage married is S.:
for males and 48.6 for females, and tn,
percentage widowed AZ and 10.1, re
spectively."