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The Illinois state government has numerous departments, but the so-called code departments provide most of the state's services. [1] [2] ... Illinois Power Agency;
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]
What is now Illinois was claimed as part of Illinois County, Virginia, between 1778 and 1782. Modern-day county formation dates to 1790 when the area was part of the Northwest Territory; two counties—St. Clair and Knox—were created at that time.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 02:27, 11 February 2007: 3,453 × 6,157 (85 KB): Dual Freq: This is a map showing St. Louis Metro-East, 5 Illinois counties of the St. Louis MSA as described by the 2000 census.
East St. Louis city, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1990 [30] Pop 2000 [31] Pop 2010 [28] Pop ...
The Government of Illinois, under the State of Illinois Constitution, has three branches of government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The State's executive branch is split into several statewide elected offices, with the Governor as chief executive and head of state, and has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions.
Greater St. Louis is the 23rd-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, [3] [4] the largest in Missouri, and the second-largest in Illinois.Its core city—St. Louis, Missouri—sits in the geographic center of the metro area, on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
Located directly east of St. Louis, the county is part of the Metro East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area in southern Illinois. As of the 2020 United States census , St. Clair County had a population of 257,400, making it the third most populous county in Illinois outside the Chicago metropolitan area .