The "German" comment was correcting that the Irish do not make up the most claimed ethnic heritage in Chicago, it is, I was saying, Germans.
However, I actually Googled it and it has changed over the last few years, and now Irish is in fact the most claimed ethnic group.
Germans traditionally settled on the north side, which has probably become less residential to native Chicagoans (of German ancestry) over the last 10-20 years and seen more transplants moving in, thus less people claiming German heritage.
