Cook County
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/91006
- Note
- Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40% of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. As of 2020, the population was 5,275,541. Its county seat is Chicago, the most populous city in Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States. The county is at center of the Chicagoland metropolitan area.
Cook County was incorporated in 1831 and named for Daniel Pope Cook, an early Illinois statesman. It achieved its present boundaries in 1839. Within one hundred years, the county recorded explosive population growth going from a trading post village with a little over 600 residents to four million citizens, rivalling Paris by the Great Depression. During the first half of the 20th century it had the absolute majority of Illinois´s population. - Latitude
- 41.799999237061
- Longitude
- -87.716667175293
- Population
- 5,194,675
- Elevation
- 178
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