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According to the 2020 United States census, Illinois is the 6th most populous state with 12,812,508 inhabitants but the 24th largest by land area spanning 55,499.0 square miles (143,742 km 2) of land. [1] Illinois is divided into 102 counties and, as of 2020, contained 1,300 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and villages.
There are 102 counties in Illinois. The most populous of these is Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States and the home of Chicago, while the least populous is Hardin County. The largest by land area is McLean County, while the smallest is Putnam County. Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL.
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] The Constitution of 1970 created, for the first time in Illinois, a type of "home rule", which allows localities to govern themselves to a certain extent. [4]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Cities in Illinois. It includes cities that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a container category .
This category contains articles about cities in the U.S. state of Illinois. Cities are one type of municipality, the other two being villages and incorporated towns. The main article for this category is List of municipalities in Illinois; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in Illinois
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Researchers found that numerous Illinois cities appear in the top 20 with the highest real estate taxes in the The personal finance website SmartAsset analyzed 342 cities across the country with ...
Administrative divisions of Illinois; List of census-designated places in Illinois; List of cities in Illinois; List of Illinois townships; List of towns and villages in Illinois; List of counties in Illinois; List of precincts in Illinois