Editing Lansing, Illinois (section)

==History==
The first family to settle in Lansing was that of August Hildebrandt in 1843. Henry, George, and John Lansing settled the area in 1846, which was incorporated in 1893. Early settlement in the village was primarily by [[Dutch people|Dutch]] and [[Germans|German]] immigrants. Industrial development of the surrounding Calumet region attracted immigrants from [[Ireland]] and [[Eastern Europe]] to the village in the 20th century. These settlement patterns are reflected in Lansing's current demographics; according to the [[2000 United States Census|census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> the top five ancestries that were in Lansing in 2000 were German (17%), Polish (13%), Irish (13%), Dutch (11%), and Italian (7%). However, according to City-data.com 2016 estimates, these ancestries began to change in the mid-90s and early 2000s, when most residents were of African American ancestry (8,871), followed by Latinos (4,183), and Asian (Southeast Asian) (255).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelansingjournal.com/news/2018/02/08/blacks-choosing-lansing/|title = Why Blacks are choosing Lansing|date = February 8, 2018}}</ref>