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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Locally, Sangamon County saw a decrease from July 1 of 2020 to 2023 of 196,144 to 193,491, or 1.35% of the county's population was lost. An aerial view of Springfield is seen on Monday, April 1, 2024.
The Rockford Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties in north-central Illinois, anchored by the city of Rockford. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 349,431 (though a 2011 estimate placed the population at 348,360). [2]
The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859. Cook County, established in 1831 and named for the early Illinois Attorney General Daniel Pope Cook, contained the absolute majority of the state's population in the first half of the 20th century and retains more than 40% of it as of the 2020 census.
The 17th congressional district of Illinois is represented by Democrat Eric Sorensen. It includes most of the northwestern portion of the state, with most of its population living on the Illinois side of the Quad Cities, as well as parts of Peoria and Rockford. The 17th congressional district has shifted northward after redistricting in 2012.
WPA poster for the Cook County Public Health Unit (1941) The administrative divisions of Illinois are the counties, townships, precincts, cities, towns, villages, and special-purpose districts. [11] Illinois has more units of local government than any other state—over 8,000 in all. The basic subdivision of Illinois are the 102 counties.
All of Macoupin County, and sections of Champaign, Macon, Madison, Piatt, Sangamon, and St. Clair Counties, are included in the new 13th. [4] The redistricting turned the 13th district from a fairly even district to a more heavily Democratic -leaning one, and consequently, it elected a Democratic representative for the first time since 1892 .
Biggsville is a village in Henderson County, Illinois, United States. [2] The population was 300 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 304 at the 2010 census. [4] It is part of the Burlington, IA–IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.