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====Immigration==== Because of its numerous jobs in mining and industry, the city was a destination for large waves of immigrants from Europe during the early 20th century. It became the center of one of the largest [[Finnish people|Finnish]] communities in the world outside Finland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Port of Duluth |url=http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/USA_MN_Port_of_Duluth_101.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707214024/http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/USA_MN_Port_of_Duluth_101.php |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |access-date=June 26, 2012}}</ref> For decades, a Finnish-language daily newspaper, ''Päivälehti,'' was published in the city, named after the former [[Grand Duchy of Finland]]'s pro-independence liberal [[Päivälehti|paper]]. The [[Finnish people|Finnish]] community of [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW) members published the widely read labor newspaper ''[[Industrialisti]].'' From 1907 to 1941, the [[Finnish Socialist Federation]] and then the IWW operated [[Work People's College]], an educational institution that taught classes from a working-class, socialist perspective. Immigrants from [[Swedish Americans|Sweden]], [[Norwegian Americans|Norway]], [[Danish Americans|Denmark]], [[German Americans|Germany]], [[Austrian Americans|Austria]], [[Czech Americans|Czechoslovakia]], [[Irish Americans|Ireland]], [[English Americans|England]], [[Italian Americans|Italy]], [[Polish Americans|Poland]], [[Hungarian Americans|Hungary]], [[Bulgarian Americans|Bulgaria]], [[Croatian Americans|Croatia]], [[Serbian Americans|Serbia]], [[Ukrainian Americans|Ukraine]], [[Romanian Americans|Romania]], and [[Russian Americans|Russia]] also settled in Duluth.<ref name="Port of Duluth" /> At one time, Duluth was home to several historic immigrant neighborhoods, including Little Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Duluth History: Little Italy, AKA the Glenn |url=http://secure-web.cisco.com/1NvOWs_kmchLbl2g5EdNKYHwNr93GXXqYcjRTagPUf4O2FzCmwrrBnQ13D-wwayEBoTXJ-KI161IVoZm5UZWehmbrHWAcV92V5VizvCFlE9X8BAcdUl_W0irwU5qpthKVUeT47wcAaGZU1O0CUKo82Qn7HhcUPp3fRGlFriSbStFjTXVtbejlzYqhtZGTbKWcr0Xd2Zp-AFvS1oO2MbcIiQdNHaBmjj842sA3aOxkkiSGuwEqJgTfy0r_yYi_O0apd-T1-HULLPul2wya8Ztcn1TO3v4UVrrYDtAgI48GAKHaH-s9v3bCepXJP7kUl7zFVa21vgzNMBLghaA5f_-3EQ/http%3A%2F%2Fzenithcity.com%2Farchive%2Fduluth-history%2Flittle-italy-aka-the-glenn%2F |website=Zenithcity.com}}</ref> Today, people of Scandinavian descent constitute a strong plurality of Duluth's population, accounting for more than a third of the residents identifying European ancestry.
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