[yobid]

As the non-english speaking population increases in my "Sweet Home Chicago", I'm contemplating getting out as well. Enough is enough.

[Clemenza]

Chicago has been filled with non-English speakers since the 1850s, when the Germans arrived in droves. Its just that, due to strict immigration laws from the 1920s-1960s, the valve was closed and it became a largely English speaking city as the second and third generations became Americanized. Now, of course, its back to what it was in the 1920s, when you would rarely hear English outside of the loop.

When I lived in Chicago (1997-1999) I heard everything from Russian to Farsi, to Yoruba, to Mandarin Chinese, to standard English. This was all in a little neighborhood on the far North Side.