Immigration Factbook

The Immigration Factbook was compiled by researchers at Roosevelt University in order to try to understand the effect of immigration upon the Chicago metropolitan area. One aspect that they mentioned is the changing areas that immigrants are using as "ports of entry". In 1990 about 12.5% of immigrants arriving to the Chicago area set up residences in the suburbs. By 2000 the percentage of immigrants whose port of entry was in the suburbs rose to 29.2 (almost a third). Such a change is probably majorly due one major factor: many low-skill jobs (in factories, for example) are now located in the suburbs. However, there are immigrant groups (particularly those coming from Asia) that are highly educated and they too contribute to the increased number of immigrants in the suburbs as companies and businesses who employ these immigrants are also located in the suburbs.