Chicago metropolitan area
The Chicago metropolitan area (also known as Chicagoland ) has approximately 9.6 million inhabitants ( 2010) among the 30 largest metropolitan areas in the world. It extends over several counties in the states of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
The largest suburbs of Chicago have over 100,000 inhabitants, and are specifically:
- Aurora ( Illinois)
- Gary (Indiana)
- Joliet (Illinois )
- Naperville
The following suburbs have 60000-100000 residents:
- Arlington Heights (Illinois )
- Bolingbrook
- Cicero (Illinois )
- Elgin (Illinois )
- Evanston (Illinois )
- Hammond (Indiana)
- Kenosha
- Palatine (Illinois )
- Schaumburg (Illinois )
- Skokie
- Waukegan (Illinois )
Between 10,000 and 60,000 have, among other
- Barrington
- Batavia
- Berwyn
- Bridgeview
- Carpentersville
- Crystal Lake
- Geneva
- Highland Park
- La Grange
- Lake Forest
- Melrose Park
- Northbrook
- Oak Park
- Schererville
- St. Charles
- Tinley Park
- Westchester
- Wheaton
- Winnetka
Counties of the Chicago metropolitan area
The Chicago metropolitan area consists of a total of 15 counties. Of these, ten are located in the state of Illinois, four in Indiana and a county located in the state of Wisconsin. Listed in the table are the numbers of inhabitants of the Census ( Census ), between 1950 and 2010.
¹ County was not yet on the day of the census part of the Chicago metropolitan area
- Metropolitan Region
- Region in North America
- Geography ( Chicago)