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The City Hall-County Building, commonly known as City Hall, is a 12-story building in Chicago, Illinois that houses the seats of government of the City of Chicago and Cook County. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The building's west side (City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St.) [ 3 ] holds the offices of the mayor , city clerk , and city treasurer ; some city departments ...
The Town Hall in Austin Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaking at St. Hyacinth Basilica in Avondale The Back of the Yards neighborhood derived from the Union Stockyards, at one time a significant employer in Chicago. Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle revolves around the life of a Lithuanian immigrant working the Stockyards named Jurgis Rudkus.
The administrative divisions of Illinois are counties, townships, precincts, cities, towns, villages, and special-purpose districts. [1] The basic subdivisions of Illinois are the 102 counties. [2] Illinois has more units of local government than any other state—over 8,000 in all. [3]
Cook County is organized into townships except for the cities of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois: voters in Chicago chose to abolish the eight townships in the city in 1992, and the single township in Evanston in 2014. [5] [6]
The most populous city is Chicago with 2,746,388 residents while the least populous is Valley City with 14 residents. [2] The largest municipality by land area is Chicago, which spans 227.73 sq mi (589.8 km 2), while the smallest is Irwin at 0.045 sq mi (0.12 km 2). [2]
Incorporated in 1850, it is located immediately south of the city of Chicago. It is the second most populous township in Illinois as of the 2020 census, after Rockford Township (pop. 170,478) in Winnebago County. [1] The village of South Holland serves as the governmental seat of Thornton Township.
Kendall County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 131,869. [1] Its county seat is Yorkville, [2] and its most populous municipality is Oswego.
The town of Triggiano, Italy, is the sister city of Addison. In the Illinois Senate , Addison is represented by Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) [ 22 ] and Seth Lewis (R-Bartlett). [ 23 ] In the Illinois House of Representatives it is represented by Jennifer Sanalitro (R-Hanover Park), [ 23 ] Diane Blair-Sherlock (D-Villa Park).