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Doing Research? : Immigration in Your Backyard
Extended Immigration Data for Illinois
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| Summary Demographic State Data (and Source) |
| Population (2007 CB est.): |
12,852,548 |
| Population (2000 Census): |
12,419,293 |
Foreign-Born Population (2007 CB est.):
Foreign-Born Population (2000 Census): |
1,812,415
1,529,058 |
Share Foreign-Born (2007):
Share Foreign-Born (2000): |
14.1%
12.3% |
| Immigrant Stock (2000 CB est.): |
2,477,000 |
| Share Immigrant Stock (2000 est.): |
19.9% |
| Naturalized U.S. Citizens (2006 CB est.): |
780,039 |
| Share Naturalized (2006): |
44.0% |
| Legal Immigrant Admission (DHS 1997-2006): |
423,578 |
| Refugee Admissions (DHS 1997-2006) |
24,018 |
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Illegal Alien Population (2007 FAIR est.): |
775,000 |
| Costs of Illegal Aliens - 2005 (2006 FAIR est.): |
2,341,000,000 |
| Projected Population - 2050 (2006 FAIR): |
21,044,748 |
INDEX TO ILLINOIS IMMIGRATION TOPICS
GENERAL INFORMATION
Illinois has long been a major immigrant settlement state. Recent immigrant settlement is taking on a new role for two reasons. First, the foreign-born population is increasingly made up of illegal aliens and immigrants who entered the United States illegally, which also contributes to a major shift in the sources of origin of the immigrant population. Secondly, because the stream of the native population leaving for elsewhere in the United States has grown into a net outflow, the continuing influx of new immigrants has become a much more significant share of the state's population change. Only in California and New York do new immigrants play a larger role in population increase.
Refugee Settlement
Illinois has received 24,018 refugees over the most recent ten fiscal years (FY'97-'06) including 1,241 persons in FY’06
Under the Office of Refugee Resettlement's (HHS/ORR) assistance funding, Illinois has received grants for FY’05 and FY’06 respectively were $7,073,021 and $7,674,661.
LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY STUDENTS
Data are not available nationally on immigrant students (either legally or illegally resident in the United States) who are enrolled in primary and secondary schools (K-12). However, many of these students are enrolled in Limited English Proficiency/English Language Learning (LEP/ELL) instruction programs. Many may be U.S.-born, but the majority of these students may be assumed to be either immigrants or the children of immigrants, with the exception being areas with native Americans who speak a native language other than English.
In Illinois, overall enrollment in 2002 (2,068,182) was 2.5 percent below enrollment in 1993. By contrast, LEP enrollment (140,528 - 6.8% of all enrollment) was 48.8 percent higher than a decade earlier.
Data on enrollment in LEP/ELL programs are collected by the federal government from school systems that receive Title VII funds for these special instruction programs. The data on LEP/ELL enrollment are understated because data from private schools that do not apply for Title VII assistance are sketchy.
FOREIGN STUDENTS
The 2006/07 annual report of the Institute of International Education (IIE) lists the number of foreign students attending post-secondary school in Illinois as 25,594.
Several schools in Illinois are listed as having a major concentration of these students:
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign had enrollment of 5,685 foreign students, 13.8% of total enrollment.
Illinois Institue of Technology had enrollment of 2,753 foreign students, 40.5% of total enrollment.
Northwestern University had enrollment of 2,318 foreign students, 12.5% of total enrollment.
University of Illinois-Chicago had enrollment of 2,098 foreign students, 8.4% of total enrollment.
Southern Illinois Carbondale had enrollment of 1,445 foreign students, 6.9% of total enrollment
Below, a chart illustrates the sharp increase of foreign students attending school in Illinois from 1960-2000.
For information on foreign student issues see: Foreign Students in the United States.
SOCIAL AND OTHER ISSUES
In Carpentersville-based Community Unit School District 300, the number of students who need instruction in Spanish shot up 76 percent between 1995 and 1999. There were some 1,700 Spanish speakers in the district in 1999, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. As many as 63 percent of the students at some schools in District 300 do not speak English, said Jane Schumacher, the district's deputy superintendent. In Carpentersville, as in other suburbs experiencing similarly dramatic demographic makeovers in recent years, social-service agencies are hard pressed to keep pace with the changing face of municipalities once uniformly white and middle class. (Source: Chicago Tribune, June 13, 2000)
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
To view a listing of local immigration reform groups, click here.
STATE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION VOTING RECORD
You can view the voting record of your representatives in Congress regarding immigration issues in our voting report section. |
