The Chicago metropolitan area and Cook County both saw slight increases in population according to the most recent estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, as international immigration outpaced ...

The Chicago metropolitan area saw a slight increase in population according to the most ... we see in many of these areas.” Cook County remained the second largest county in the union behind ...

Statewide, the population has dropped 0.9% since 2020, driven mainly by losses of 2% to 5% in a number of western and southern counties. Champaign County was an exception, with a significant ...