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Chicagoland is an informal name for the Chicago metropolitan area, used primarily by copywriters, advertising agencies, suburbanites, and traffic reporters. There is no precise definition for the term "Chicagoland"; a common usage includes the city of Chicago, Cook County and nine surrounding counties, including two in Indiana, and one in Wisconsin. The term was popularized by the Chicago Tribune. Colonel Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher usually gets credit for placing the term in common use. [1][2] The first usage came on July 27, 1926 (page 1) with the headline: "Chicagoland's Shrines: A Tour of Discoveries" by reporter James O'Donnell Bennett. He claimed that Chicagoland comprised everything in a 200 mile radius in every direction and reported on many different places in the area. The Tribune was the dominant newspaper in a vast area stretching to the west of the city, and that hinterland was closely tied to the metropolis by rail lines and commercial links.[3]
OverviewImage:Chicagoland.jpg Chicagoland Radius Map Showing Zones. In general terms, Zone 1 is the downtown area, Zone 2 is the main city, and Zone 3 is the outer city. Zone 4 contains most of the suburbs, and outer suburbs are in Zone 5. Image:Map of the USA highlighting Chicagoland.gif Location within the USA
The suburbs, surrounded by easily annexed flat ground, have been expanding at a tremendous rate since the early 1960s. Naperville is noteworthy for being one of only a few boomburbs outside the Sunbelt, West Coast and Mountain States regions, and exurban Kendall County ranked as the third fastest-growing county in the United States with a population greater than 10,000 between 2004 and 2005.[2] Settlement patterns in Chicagoland tend to follow those in the city proper: the northern suburbs along the shore of Lake Michigan are comparatively affluent, while the southern suburbs (sometimes known as Chicago Southland) are less so, with lower median incomes and a lower cost of living. However, there is a major exception to this. While Chicago's west side is among the poorer sections of the city, the western and northwestern suburbs contain many affluent areas. According to the 2000 Census, DuPage County had the highest median household income of any county in the Midwest. The county's largest city, Naperville, had the lowest poverty rate of any U.S. city with a population greater than 100,000. Several DuPage County municipalities have median home prices significantly higher than that of Chicagoland as a whole: Elmhurst $587,165, Hinsdale $1,274,558, Oak Brook $1,160,724, Glen Ellyn $579,954, Wheaton $427,428.10, Clarendon Hills $718,453 and Burr Ridge $913,579. Some "inner-ring" western suburbs in Cook County (Zone 3 on the Chicagoland Radius Map), such as Maywood and Cicero, are characterized by low income levels, however. According to the 2000 US Census, poverty rates of the largest counties from least poverty to most are as follows: Dupage 5.90%, Grundy 6.10%, Will 6.70%, Lake 6.90%, Kane 7.40%, Cook 14.50%.
UsageThe term Chicagoland correctly stands alone as a description of Chicago and the surrounding counties. Often-used terms such as "the Chicagoland area," "metro Chicagoland" or even "the greater metropolitan Chicagoland area" are grammatically redundant. The term is most often used by advertisers ("See your Chicagoland Chevy dealer") or by weathercasters ("A major snowstorm is expected in Chicagoland"). The Chicago Tribune uses the name CLTV for their 24-hour cable news channel, official name Chicagoland Television. Without combination with a second name or term, it is fair use for any one to add the term "Chicagoland". List of countiesIllinois
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Urban areas and urban clusters within the Chicagoland CSAWithin the boundary of the 16-county Chicago Consolidated Statistical Area lies the Chicago urban area, as well as 27 smaller urban areas and clusters. Smallest gap indicates the shortest distance between the given urban area or cluster and the Chicago urban area.
The formerly distinct urban areas of Aurora, Elgin, Joliet, and Waukegan were absorbed into the Chicago UA as of the 2000 census. † These urban areas and urban clusters are expected to be joined to the Chicago Urban Area by the next census in 2010. ^ The Round Lake Beach-McHenry-Grayslake, IL-WI UA extends into Walworth County, WI, which lies (for the moment) outside the Chicago CSA. ^^ The Michigan City-LaPorte, IN-MI UA extends into Berrien County, MI, which lies (for the moment) outside the Chicago CSA. ^^^ The Sandwich, IL UC extends into LaSalle County, IL, which lies (for the moment) outside the Chicago CSA. ^^^^ The Genoa City, WI-IL UC extends into Walworth County, WI, which lies (for the moment) outside the Chicago CSA. Census Bureau population statisticsThe Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) was originally designated by the United States Census Bureau in 1950 and consisted of the Illinois counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and Will along with Lake County in Indiana. As surrounding counties saw an increase in their population densities and the number of their residents employed within Cook County, they met Census criteria to be added to the MSA. The Metropolitan Statistical Area is currently named Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI. The addition of Kankakee County, Illinois and LaPorte County, Indiana to the metropolitan area forms the census designated Combined Statistical Area named Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI which has a July 1 2005 population estimate of 9,661,840.
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