2000-2010 Immigration

From 1990 to 2000, Chicago's population has grown by 537,000.  In 2000 the Chicago's population was 2.89 million people, with 1.4 million immigrants. Of those immigrants, Mexican, Polish and Indian immigrants make up 56% of the immigrant population. The African American population at this time however was leaving Chicago at a rapid pace, this is opening up places were more immigrants can settle. Also the increase of population moving to the suburbs opens up more inexpensive housing which attracted more and more immigrants. The 2000 census found more immigrants in the suburban portions of metropolitan Chicago than in the city of Chicago itself.