Chicago metropolitan area

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The Chicago metropolitan area, also known as Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwest. The metropolitan area contains the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs, satellite cities, and hinterland, spanning several counties across northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. The MSA had a 2020 census population of 9,618,502, part of the fourth-largest combined statistical area in the United States, spanning 19 counties with a population of nearly 10 million. The Chicago area is the third-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States, the fourth-largest in North America (after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles), and the largest in the Great Lakes megalopolis. Its urban area is the 50th-largest in the world. According to the 2020 census, Chicagoland's population is approaching 10 million. In recent decades, the metropolitan area has seen a substantial increase of Latin American residents on top of its already...

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