Observations on very recent immigration trends for your City

[mrnyc]

there are 200k armenians around the nyc metro —

also there are 3k+ in cleveland.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

also there are 3k+ in cleveland.

Doesn't surprise me.

I got curious about Armenians in the Midwest so I went Google mapping, searching for "Armenian Church" as a proxy for Armenian communities. Cleveland has the only one I could find in Ohio


The results (by metro area):

Chicago: 7
Milwaukee: 4 (2 down in the Racine area!)
Detroit: 3
St. Louis: 2 (both in the metro east)
Cleveland: 1
Kanas City: 1
Minneapolis: 1

That was all I could find.

[Tom In Chicago]

Growing up in Kenosha I knew some Armenians. . . in fact the long time mayor up until just now is Armenian. . .

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[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago

Growing up in Kenosha I knew some Armenians. . . in fact the long time mayor up until just now is Armenian. . .

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Interesting.

According to Google maps, there are two Armenian Churches in Racine, and two in Waukegan, but none in Kenosha?

The others in the broader region:

Chicagoland:
Chicago (Belmont Cragin)
Evanston
Glenview
Mount Prospect
Palos Heights

Milwaukeeland:
Milwaukee (SW side)
South Milwaukee

Caveat: all info above is only as accurate as the gmaps database.



I went to Loyola Academy in Wilmette, and given its status as one of the premiere Catholic high schools in Chicagoland, combined with its proximity to Evanston and Glenview, we had a noticeable (but not huge) presence of Armenian kids, along with other eastern European church kids like Greek and Serbian Orthodox and such.

[Velvet_Highground]

Hmm interesting I just googled about the local Armenian population in Metro Detroit. I’m not surprised to find out most live in the NW burbs I knew a few coming up in Farmington Hills. The Dearborn area, Farmington Hills, Livonia, Southfield & West Bloomfield are where most of the (60,000 according to wiki) 15k by The News live making the community the 4th largest in the Western Hemisphere (according to their local FB page) 4th in the US according to a 8 year News article apparently.

[Tom In Chicago]

There's a gal in my building who's originally from Bulgaria and we were talking about how her family moved here, but I guess Chicago has one of the largest - if not the largest (I can't independently verify this) - Bulgarian diasporas in the world. . .

Maybe someone can confirm or deny? I dunno. . . sounded plausible as there are lots of large Eastern European groups here already. . .

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