Immigration

I took a look at the Metro Chicago Immigration Factbook and found something to be slightly interesting. I came across the map that sorted out the numbers of foreign born by neighborhood. The darkest blue means there's more people who were foreign born. And to my surprise--or just shocked me, really--was the fact that majority of the map of Chicago was a deeper shade of blue. That means that the majority of the neighborhoods have between 18,500 and 47,906 people who are foreign-born. I find that interesting because I wasn't really expecting that, quite honestly. I mean, I know that Chicago is a very diverse city, but it still caught me off guard. I guess I never really thought of it as people being born elsewhere and then moving. I always kind of thought of it as a place of descendants; I just thought everyone's relatives were from elsewhere and people were born here having international descent. It's kind of stupid of me now that I have it down on paper. Well, computer screen, but written down nonetheless.
Oh! Something else that I noticed was the areas with the greatest immigrant population throughout the Chicagoland Area. I guess I wasn't really surprised with this one, but it's just an observation. The Factbook presents a list of ten places that are ranked "in the top 25 metropolitan areas in terms of both the number of immigrants and the percent of their community made up of immigrants." Cicero was on the list having come second in each category: 37,343 individuals, which is 43.6% of its entire population. Like I said, it's not extremely surprising to me, having worked in Cicero and having a lot of friends who live in the town. It's interesting to see the numbers down on paper.