Looking at the wage and nationality maps of Chicago in the late 19th century, some striking trends emerge. For one thing, there are almost no English-speaking households in the four sections of map, and those places marked as English speaking are almost exclusively brothels. This may be an indication that those families that spoke English were well-off enough to live in more well-to-do neighborhoods and came to the poorer regions only to ply a fairly lucrative trade in prostitution. Those living near these brothels are almost exclusively in the $5-10 range, and mostly Italian. For the most part, indeed, people live with others of their same ethnicity, creating a strong (or relatively strong) community of people from "the old country," whatever that may be in a particular circle. On the nationality maps, there are large blocks of color, indicating a tendency to drift towards people with similar values and experiences; that is, people of the same heritage.

The main nationality lacking in this sort of community bond seems to be English speakers. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that some English speakers, born and raised in America, felt no need to gravitate towards others of their kind, since the country is full of "their kind." It is also highly likely that English speaking people were better equipped to fill higher-paying jobs, allowing them to move to more expensive neighborhoods. The problem of the brothels still remains. Why were the majority of the brothels counted as English speaking, even though the surrounding community had few to no English speakers in residence? Perhaps this stemmed from a recognized niche that could be easily filled by those who were already higher up on the social ladder, mainly English speakers.

In any case, it appears that immigrants tended to live together in as large groups as possible, and each block of nationalities tended to earn about the same wage, mostly very low. Those who earned more, interestingly, tended to live in more diverse neighborhoods, a sort of patchwork of heritages as well as of wage ranges.