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Article: Buffalo Grove's diverse history Culture expands as town grows beyond German roots.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- May 26, 2000
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No Northwest suburb embodies the term "melting pot," quite as much as Buffalo Grove.
Now home to more than one-third of the Jewish population in the Northwest suburbs, the village also has become a destination for a wide variety of European and Hispanic immigrants.
Last year in Wheeling Township Elementary District 21, English was the second language for about 2,800 students, who speak 53 languages ranging from Polish to Patois, a provincial tongue most commonly heard in Jamaica. On the north side of town, in Aptakisic- Tripp Elementary District 102, educators count 34 different languages. Jewish families are just part of a diverse group of people ...
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