Chicagoland Chicago metropolitan area

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chicagoland county , state.



a map of chicagoland in relation states of wisconsin, illinois, , indiana.


chicagoland informal name chicago metropolitan area. term chicagoland has no official definition, , region considered include areas beyond corresponding msa, portions of greater csa.


colonel robert r. mccormick, editor , publisher of chicago tribune, gets credit placing term in common use. mccormick s conception of chicagoland stretched way nearby parts of 4 states (indiana, wisconsin, michigan, , iowa). first usage in tribune s july 27, 1926 front page headline, chicagoland s shrines: tour of discoveries , article reporter james o donnell bennett. stated chicagoland comprised in 200-mile (320 km) radius in every direction , reported on many different places in area. tribune dominant newspaper in vast area stretching west of city, , hinterland closely tied metropolis rail lines , commercial links.


today, chicago tribune s usage includes city of chicago, rest of cook county, 8 nearby illinois counties (lake, mchenry, dupage, kane, kendall, grundy, will, , kankakee), , 2 indiana counties of lake , porter. illinois department of tourism literature uses chicagoland suburbs in cook, lake, dupage, kane, , counties, treating city separately. chicagoland chamber of commerce defines of cook, dupage, kane, lake, mchenry, , counties.


differing viewpoints exist, of course. example, many residents live in of more distant satellite counties nonetheless refer being chicago or chicagoans . until recently, dekalb county not considered part of region proper, highly developed area has continued expand, commonly defined far suburbs of city.


in addition, company marketing programs such construction data company s chicago , vicinity region , chicago automobile trade association s chicagoland , northwest indiana advertising campaign directed @ msa itself, lasalle, winnebago (rockford), boone, , ogle counties in illinois, in addition jasper, newton, , la porte counties in indiana , kenosha, racine, , walworth counties in wisconsin, , far northeast berrien county, michigan. region part of great lakes megalopolis, containing estimated 54 million people.








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