Aurora (Illinois)
Kane County DuPage County Will County Kendall County
17-03012
Aurora is a city in Illinois. In the census of 2010, a population of 197 899 was; Aurora is so to Chicago the second largest city in Illinois, just ahead of Rockford. Approximately 110,000 of residents living in Kane County, about 42,000 in DuPage County, while only a few thousand each, Will and Kendall County inhabit.
The city, which is part of the Chicago metropolitan area, also used the nickname " City of Lights " because it has been one of the first municipalities, Ground surrounded entirely on electric street lighting ( in 1881, the nickname did not come until 1908 in use). The meteorologist Tom Skilling, who is known on the Chicago Tribune and WGN - TV, is from Aurora and a graduate of West Aurora High School. The figures of Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar ( represented by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey ), which first appeared on the television program Saturday Night Live, and then in two Wayne's World movies, also from Aurora; most of their adventures took place there as well. ( The movies were not filmed there. ) The city is also mentioned in a song by the Alkaline Trio as the site of a car accident.
Geography
Aurora is located at 41 ° 45'36 "North, 88 ° 17'55 " West ( 41.759879, -88.298482 ). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 102.1 km ².
Although the city is commonly associated with Kane County ( the center is in fact entirely in this county ), Aurora is one of only two cities in Illinois, the areas in four counties has simultaneously: Kane, Kendall County, Will County and DuPage County.
The city is the last stop of Metra (Metropolitan Transit Authority ) line, which offers tracks of the BNSF Railway commuter traffic to Chicago.
Demography
In the census of 2000, there was a population density of 1,433 per km ². There 48,797 households were counted with an average density of 489 per km ².
Sons and daughters of the town
- Arthur Fickenscher (1871-1954), composer
- Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929), literary scholar and historian
- Dion O'Banion (1892-1924), gang leader and rival of Al Capone
- Chick Hearn (1916-2002), sports reporter
- Clive Cussler ( born 1931 ), writer
- Phillip Johnson ( born 1940 ), author and Emeritus Professor of Law
- Dennis Hastert (* 1942), politician, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives