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Population. 2,665,039 (2022 est.) [1] The demographics of Chicago show that it is a large, and ethnically and culturally diverse metropolis. It is the third largest city and metropolitan area in the United States by population. Chicago was home to over 2.7 million people in 2020, accounting for over 25% of the population in the Chicago ...
1790. When the United States declared independence in 1776, Philadelphia was its most populous city. By the time the first U.S. census count was completed in 1790, New York City had already grown to be 14% more populous than Philadelphia (though Philadelphia still had the larger metropolitan population in 1790).
March 16: First Chicago death due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Governor J. B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot issue a stay at home order. Over 7,700 people in Chicago died in the pandemic. May 28 – June 1: George Floyd protests in Chicago; Population: 2,741,730. [72] 2021: The Chicago Sky won their first WNBA championship, defeating the ...
CHICAGO — Chicago grew by about 50,000 residents over the last decade, according to 2020 U.S. Census data released Thursday. The decennial population count put Chicago’s total at 2,746,388 ...
Within sixty years of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population went from about 300,000 to over 3 million, [162] and reached its highest ever recorded population of 3.6 million for the 1950 census.
By 1857, Chicago was the largest city in what was then called the Northwest. In 20 years, Chicago grew from 4,000 people to over 90,000. Chicago surpassed St. Louis and Cincinnati as the major city in the West and gained political notice as the home of Stephen Douglas, the 1860 presidential
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is an Illinois state agency responsible for transportation infrastructure, land use, and long-term economic development planning for the areas under its jurisdiction within Illinois. [23] The planning area has a population of over 8 million, which includes the following locations in Illinois: [24]
As of the 2010 census, [1] there were 2,695,598 people with 1,045,560 households residing within Chicago. More than half the population of the state of Illinois lives in the Chicago metropolitan area. Chicago is also one of the US's most densely populated major cities. The racial composition of the city was: 45.0% White (31.7% non-Hispanic whites);