Pilsen, Chicago

Scenes from Pilsen, a heavily Mexican-American enclave in Chicago, as it prepares for Día de los Muertos, otherwise known as Day of the Dead.

Coyotes Restaurant, West 18th Street

Bombon, West 18th Street

Mural painted on house on South Allport Street

Street vendor on West 18th Street

House decorated on South Allport Street

Poder Learning Center, South Allport Street

 

"Si se puede" poster, Perez Family Restaurant, West 18th Street

Street mural, West 18th Street

Artesanias D'Mexico, West 18th Street

South Dakota's Largest Ethnic Groups

German- American's are the largest ethnic group in South Dakota at over 40% of the state's population. South Dakota also has a large Norwegian community with 15% of residents having Norwegian ancestry. There is also a large Native American presence: with a population of over 65,000, the Sioux are the state's 4th largest ethnicity.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 South Dakota Population	As a Percent of Total South Dakota Population
	Total Population	816,463	100.00%
1	German	337,045	41.28%
2	Norwegian	121,655	14.90%
3	Irish	84,298	10.32%
4	Sioux	65,575	8.03%
5	English	53,741	6.58%
6	Dutch	36,464	4.47%
7	American	31,464	3.85%
8	Swedish	31,376	3.84%
9	French, except Basque	22,747	2.79%
10	Danish	20,634	2.53%
11	Czech	19,592	2.40%
12	Polish	13,967	1.71%
13	Mexican	13,745	1.68%
14	Russian	13,024	1.60%
15	Scottish	9,696	1.19%
16	Italian	9,215	1.13%
17	European	6,643	0.81%
18	African-American*	5,509	0.67%
19	Welsh	4,905	0.60%
20	Subsaharan African	4,615	0.57%
21	Scotch-Irish	4,362	0.53%
22	French Canadian	3,593	0.44%
23	Swiss	3,484	0.43%
24	Chinese, including Taiwanese	2,177	0.27%
25	Central American	1,955	0.24%
26	Other Hispanic or Latino	1,932	0.24%
27	Arab	1,824	0.22%
28	Ukrainian	1,772	0.22%
29	Puerto Rican	1,328	0.16%
30	South American	1,306	0.16%
31	British	1,252	0.15%
32	Vietnamese	1,242	0.15%
33	Hungarian	1,088	0.13%
34	Greek	936	0.11%
35	Portuguese	842	0.10%
36	Chippewa	732	0.09%
37	Slovak	596	0.07%
38	Korean	570	0.07%
39	Japanese	464	0.06%
40	Lithuanian	341	0.04%
41	Asian Indian	321	0.04%
42	Filipino	295	0.04%
43	Cherokee	253	0.03%
44	West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	230	0.03%
45	Navajo	203	0.02%
46	Cuban	160	0.02%
47	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	82	0.01%
48	Dominican (Dominican Republic)	41	0.01%
49	Alaska Native tribes, specified	28	0.00%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, C02005, C02006, C02007, C03001, B03002, C04006

* African-American is derived as respondents selecting Black as racial group after removing African, West Indian, and Hispanic ethnicities.