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St. John, IN

Lake County, 31 miles S of the Loop. Early German settlers named St. Johns (the s disappeared in the early twentieth century) as a tribute to John Hack, one of its first settlers. German Catholics supported bilingual education and establishment of the first Roman Catholic church of Lake County in 1842. In the late twentieth century the town attracted Chicago commuters, with population growing from 1,757 in 1970 to 8,382 in 2000.


St. John, IN (inc. 1911)
Year Total
(and by category) 		  Foreign Born Native with foreign parentage Males per 100 females
1870 1,442   38.3% — —
1930 332   — — —
1960 1,128   — — 104
  1,128 White (100.0%)      
1990 4,921   1.8% — 100
  4,904 White (99.7%)      
  17 American Indian (0.3%)      
  112 Hispanic Origin* (2.3%)      
2000 8,382   3.3% — 101
  8,177 White alone (97.6%)      
  11 Black or African American alone (0.1%)      
  14 American Indian and Alaska Native alone (0.2%)      
  39 Asian alone (0.5%)      
  63 Some other race alone (0.8%)      
  78 Two or more races (0.9%)      
  352 Hispanic or Latino* (4.2%)      

Erik Gellman
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