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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource At Home in Skokie Description An account of the resource Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center. Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland. After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs. This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends. Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs. References Beaudette, E. Palma. Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville. Chicago, 1916 Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995. Martinson, Tom. American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000. United States. Census Bureau. Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020. Whittingham, Richard. Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Skokie Population Distribution in 1945, 1955 and 1964 Description An account of the resource This poster shows the population distribution in Skokie in 1945, 1955 and 1964 using maps and aerial photographs from 1928 and 1964. The population grew from 9,570 in 1945 to 67,895 in 1964. The largest concentrations of people appear to be near transportation, both the Edens Expressway and the Skokie Swift L Line (the Northshore Railway). <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1593">View the full record</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1964 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. population maps Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*">At Home in Skokie</a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Skokie--Illinois--United States Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>. 1920s (1920-1929) 1940s (1940-1949) 1950s (1950-1959) 1960s (1960-1969) AHIS AHISmap At Home in Skokie Digital Collection maps Niles Center History skokie history