A report on Chicago and Cook County, Illinois

Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History

An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893

Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931)

Cook County and adjacent counties, from ISS Expedition 37 in 2013.

Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront

Cook County 1836–39 after the creation of McHenry and Will Counties

Cook County was reduced to its current size in 1839 by the creation of DuPage County.

The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window.

Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of the Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition

Downtown Chicago and the Chicago River during January 2014 cold wave

Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

The National Hellenic Museum in Greektown is one of several ethnic museums comprising the Chicago Cultural Alliance.

The spire of the Copernicus Center is modeled on the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.

The Magnificent Mile hosts numerous upscale stores, as well as landmarks like the Chicago Water Tower.

Carl Sandburg's most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/ Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/ Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."

Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side

Daley Plaza with Picasso statue, City Hall in background. At right, the Daley Plaza Building contains the state law courts.

When it was opened in 1991, the central Harold Washington Library appeared in Guinness World Records as the largest municipal public library building in the world.

The University of Chicago, as seen from the Midway Plaisance

WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station.

The former Harpo Studios in West Loop, Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015.

Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange, opened in the 1960s

Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States.

Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station

Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most populous U.S. county and the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Its county seat is Chicago, the most populous city in Illinois and the third-most-populous city in the United States.

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Chicago metropolitan area

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Metropolitan area in the Midwestern United States.

A map of Chicagoland in relation to the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.

Airborne view of the dense southern part of Chicago, running alongside Lake Michigan. Downtown Chicago is at the far left by the lake in the photo.

The extent of the 16-county Chicago CSA (in black) and the 16 counties that share a border with the Chicago CSA (in gray), with counties divided into Minor Civil Divisions. In Illinois and Indiana, townships are intermediate between counties and municipalities (with the latter lying within townships and crossing township borders), while in Michigan and Wisconsin, townships are a type of municipality.

Westward view from the Willis Tower in Chicago

Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago

Taken from the ISS on June 23, 2022; downtown Chicago is at the center by the lake

Encompassing 10,286 sq mi (28,120 km2), the metropolitan area includes the city of Chicago, its suburbs and hinterland, spanning 14 counties in northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana, and a small portion of southeast Wisconsin.

Cook County (5,287,037)

Will County from its 1836 creation to 1852

Will County, Illinois

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County in the northeastern part of the state of Illinois.

Will County in 1853, reduced to its current borders by the creation of Kankakee County

Will County is one of the five collar counties of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Will County was formed on January 12, 1836, out of Cook and Iroquois Counties.

Kane County from the time of its creation to 1837, when DeKalb County was split off

Kane County, Illinois

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County in the U.S. state of Illinois.

Kane County in 1841, reduced to its present size

Kane County is one of the collar counties of the metropolitan statistical area designated "Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN–WI" by the US Census.

Cook County (east)

DuPage County at the time of its creation in 1839

DuPage County, Illinois

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County in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area.

The First Church of Lombard is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Aerial view of the Tevatron particle accelerator at the Fermilab site

The DuPage County Courthouse complex in Wheaton

Blanchard Hall at Wheaton College is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

DuPage County was formed on February 9, 1839, out of Cook County.

Chicago (part)

The Terwilliger House is one of several historical sites in McHenry County

McHenry County, Illinois

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County located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

Glacial Park, located in Northeast McHenry County

McHenry County at the time of its creation in 1836

McHenry County was reduced to its current size in 1839 by the creation of Lake County, Illinois.

McHenry County is one of the five collar counties of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.

McHenry County was formed in 1836 out of Cook and LaSalle counties.

Illinois

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State in the Midwestern United States.

Mississippian copper plate found at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois

Illinois in 1718, approximate modern state area highlighted, from Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi by Guillaume de L'Isle

The bell donated by King Louis XV in 1741 to the mission at Kaskaskia. It was later called the "Liberty Bell of the West", after it was rung to celebrate U.S. victory in the Revolution

In 1818, Illinois became the 21st U.S. state. The southern portion of Illinois Territory was admitted as the state of Illinois, and the rest was joined to Michigan Territory.

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Old State Capitol]]: Abraham Lincoln and other area legislators were instrumental in moving the state capitol to centrally located Springfield in 1839.

Embarkation of Union troops from Cairo on January 10, 1862

Charles Mound, the highest natural point in Illinois at 1,235 feet above sea level, is located in the Driftless Area in the northwestern part of the state.

At 279 feet above sea level, the lowest elevation point in the state is located near Cairo and the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Density map displaying the population of Illinois

The Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago at the heart of Chicago's financial center

Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Ogle County

Average annual wind power distribution for Illinois, 50 m height above ground (2009)

The Illinois State Capitol in Springfield

Vandalia State House State Historic Site in Vandalia

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

Magnolia Manor is a Victorian period historic house museum in Cairo.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield

A Railway Post Office preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union

Standard license plate introduced in 2017

Illinois license plate design used throughout the 1980s and 1990s, displaying the Land of Lincoln slogan that has been featured on the state's plates since 1954

Chicago is its largest city, and the state's capital is Springfield; other major metropolitan areas include Metro East (of Greater St. Louis), Peoria and Rockford.

However, the "collar counties" (the suburbs surrounding Chicago's Cook County, Illinois), can be seen as moderate voting districts.

Lake County, Illinois

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Situated in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Illinois, along the shores of Lake Michigan.

The Caspar Ott Cabin, built in 1837, is the oldest structure in Lake County.

Lake County at the time of its creation in 1839

A satellite view of the Lake County district

Due to its location, immediately north of Cook County, Lake County is one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Lake County is covered in the Chicago media market and the county relies on Chicago television stations, radio stations, and newspapers for the source of its news and information.

The university traces its history to Chicago Teachers College (now Chicago State University), which as Cook County Normal School was founded in 1867 to train elementary and high school teachers.

A report on Chicago and Cook County, Illinois

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