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Aurora, or Aurora-on-Cayuga, is a village and former college town in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York, United States, on the shore of Cayuga Lake. The village had a population of 724 at the 2010 census. [2] Wells College, an institution of higher education for women founded by Henry Wells in 1868, was located in Aurora.
Aurora is the most populous city in Illinois that is not the county seat of any county that it resides in. Founded within Kane County, Aurora's city limits have expanded into DuPage, Kendall, and Will counties. Once a mid-sized manufacturing city, Aurora has grown since the 1960s into a large city within the Chicago metropolitan area. In 1908 ...
The state does have a Lee County (founded 1839) named after Henry Lee III, the father of Robert E. Lee, who at one time served in Illinois. Illinois also has two counties named after the same person, New York governor DeWitt Clinton (DeWitt County, and Clinton County).
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Collar counties is a colloquialism for DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties, the five counties of Illinois that border Cook County, which is home to Chicago.The collar counties are part of the Chicago metropolitan area and comprise many of the area's suburbs.
Kane County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census , it has a population of 516,522, [ 2 ] making it the fifth-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Geneva , [ 3 ] and its largest city is Aurora .
Counties of New York Location State of New York Number 62 Populations 5,082 (Hamilton) – 2,561,225 (Kings) Areas 33.77 square miles (87.5 km 2) (New York) – 2,821 square miles (7,310 km 2) (St. Lawrence) Government County government Subdivisions Cities, Towns, Indian Reservations Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower ...
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. [104] 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 ...