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Almost 60% of Illinois' minority population, including over 67% of the black population, lives in Cook County, while the county includes around 40% of the state's total population. [103] Cook County, which is home to Chicago , is the only majority-minority county within Illinois, with non-Hispanic whites making up a plurality of 40.4% of the ...
In 2013, Illinois’ annual population estimate showed an increase of 12,700. The following year began the decade of decline. In 2014, the state lost an estimated 10,700.
The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830–1917 (1997) Gove, Samuel K. and James D. Nowlan. Illinois Politics & Government: The Expanding Metropolitan Frontier (1996) Hallwas, John E. ed., Illinois Literature: The Nineteenth Century (1986) Hartley, Robert E. Big Jim Thompson of Illinois (1979), governor 1980s
The rural population is defined by size of place under 2500 and includes non-farmers living in villages and the open countryside. At the first census in 1790, the rural population was 3.7 million and urban only 202,000. The nation was 95% rural, and the great majority of rural residents were subsistence farmers.
New data shows nearly every Illinois county saw a population decrease from 2020-2023 in Illinois—including Sangamon County. ... this census cycle mark’s Illinois’ 10th consecutive year of ...
The Southeastern U.S. was responsible for nearly 90% of the population growth that occurred in rural America last year, a Daily Yonder analysis of 2023 Census Bureau data shows.. From 2022 to 2023 ...
The U.S. State of Illinois currently has 47 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated 14 combined statistical areas, 12 metropolitan statistical areas, and 21 micropolitan statistical areas in Illinois. [1]
For the first time in a decade, Illinois’ population increased in the year ending July 1, 2024, ending a decade of decline. Numbers released by the U.S. Census show Illinois gained nearly 68,000.