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Chicagoland Real Estate Overview

Chicagoland is a common name for the Chicago metropolitan area. Chicagoland includes the City of Chicago at its core and encompasses smaller cities and suburban communities located in nine surrounding counties in the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Chicagoland is often used in place of "Chicago metropolitan area" by local residents, businesses, governments, and planning agencies. The term originated in the pages of the Chicago Tribune in the 1900s.

The Chicago–Joliet–Naperville–Gary, Indiana–Kenosha, Wisconsin Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area had 9,157,540 inhabitants during the 2000 census. Population estimates for 2003 place the Chicagoland population at approximately 9,650,000, which would make it the 25th most populous metropolitan area in the world. Chicagoland runs together with Suburban Milwaukee creating a megalopolis region.

The suburbs, surrounded by easily annexed flat ground, have been expanding at a tremendous rate since the early 1960s. Settlement patterns in Chicagoland tend to follow those in the city proper: the northern suburbs along the shore of Lake Michigan are comparatively affluent, while the southern suburbs are less so, with lower median incomes and a lower cost of living. There are affluent areas in the northwest and western suburbs as well, that rival the northern suburbs. The southern portion of Chicagoland is occasionally called Illiana, a contraction of Illinois and Indiana.

List of Counties in Chicagoland

• Cook County, Illinois
• DuPage County, Illinois
• Kane County, Illinois
• Kendall County, Illinois
• Lake County, Illinois
• McHenry County, Illinois
• Will County, Illinois
• Lake County, Indiana
• Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Anchor Cities of Chicagoland

• Chicago, Illinois
• Gary, Indiana
• Kenosha, Wisconsin

Major Airports of Chicagoland

• O'Hare International Airport (ORD) - Chicago, Illinois
• Midway Airport (MDW) - Chicago, Illinois
• Gary/Chicago International Airport (GYY) - Gary, Indiana

Suburbs with more than 100,000 inhabitants

• Aurora, Illinois
• Joliet, Illinois
• Naperville, Illinois
• Elgin, Illinois
• Gary, Indiana

Suburbs with 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants

Illinois

Addison, Algonquin, Alsip, Arlington Heights, Barrington, Bartlett, Batavia, Beach Park, Bellwood, Bensenville, Berwyn, Bloomingdale, Blue Island, Bolingbrook, Bridgeview, Brookfield, Buffalo Grove, Burbank, Burr Ridge, Calumet City, Carol Stream, Cary, Carpentersville, Chicago Heights, Chicago Ridge, Cicero, Country Club Hills, Crest Hill, Crestwood, Crystal Lake, Darien, Deerfield, Des Plaines, Dolton, Downers Grove, Elk Grove Village, Elmhurst, Elmwood Park, Evanston, Evergreen Park, Forest Park, Frankfort, Franklin Park, Gages Lake, Geneva, Glen Ellyn, Glendale Heights, Glenview, Goodings Grove, Grayslake, Gurnee, Hanover Park, Harvey, Hazel Crest, Hickory Hills, Highland Park, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Homewood, Huntley, Justice, La Grange, La Grange Park, Lake Forest, Lake in the Hills, Lake Zurich, Lansing, Lemont, Libertyville, Lincolnwood, Lindenhurst, Lisle, Lockport, Lombard, Lyons, Markham, Matteson, Maywood, McHenry, Melrose Park, Midlothian, Mokena, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Mundelein, New Lenox, Niles, Norridge, North Aurora, North Chicago, Northbrook, Northlake, Oak Forest, Oak Lawn, Oak Park, Oswego, Orland Park, Palatine, Palos Heights, Palos Hills, Park Forest, Park Ridge, Plainfield, Prospect Heights, Richton Park, River Forest, River Grove, Riverdale, Rolling Meadows, Romeoville, Roselle, Round Lake Beach, Sauk Village, Schaumburg, Schiller Park, Skokie, South Elgin, South Holland, St. Charles, Streamwood, Summit, Tinley Park, Vernon Hills, Villa Park, Warrenville, Waukegan, Westchester, West Chicago, Western Springs, Westmont, Wheaton, Wheeling, Wilmette, Winnetka, Wood Dale, Woodridge, Woodstock, Worth, Zion.

Indiana

Chesterton, Crown Point, Dyer, East Chicago, Griffith, Hammond, Highland, Hobart, Lake Station, Merrillville, Munster, Portage, Schererville, Valparaiso.

Wisconsin

Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha.

 

Suburbs with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants

Illinois

Antioch, Bannockburn, Barrington Hills, Bedford Park, Beecher, Berkeley, Boulder Hill, Braidwood, Broadview, Bull Valley, Burlington, Burnham, Calumet Park, Channel Lake, Clarendon Hills, Countryside, Crystal Lawns, Crete, Deer Park, Dixmoor, East Dundee, East Hazel Crest, Elburn, Elwood, Fairmont, Flossmoor, Ford Heights, Forest Lake, Forest View, Fox Lake, Fox Lake Hills, Fox River Grove, Fox River Valley Gardens, Frankfort Square, Gilberts, Glencoe, Glenwood, Golf, Grandwood Park, Green Oaks, Greenwood, Hainesville, Hampshire, Harvard, Harwood Heights, Hawthorn Woods, Hebron, Highwood, Hillside, Hodgkins, Holiday Hills, Hometown, Indian Creek, Indian Head Park, Ingalls Park, Inverness, Island Lake, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kenilworth, Kildeer, Lake Barrington, Lake Bluff, Lake Catherine, Lake Villa, Lakemoor, Lakewood, Lakewood Shores, Lily Lake, Lincolnshire, Lisbon, Long Grove, Long Lake, Lynwood, Manhattan, Marengo, McCook, McCullom Lake, Merrionette Park, Mettawa, Monee, Montgomery, Newark, North Barrington, North Riverside, Northfield, Oak Brook, Oakbrook Terrace, Oakwood Hills, Old Mill Creek, Olympia Fields, Orland Hills, Palos Park, Park City, Peotone, Phoenix, Pingree Grove, Pistakee Highlands, Plano, Posen, Prairie Grove, Preston Heights, Richmond, Ringwood, Riverside, Riverwoods, Robbins, Rockdale, Rosemont, Round Lake, Round Lake Heights, Round Lake Park, Shorewood, Sleepy Hollow, South Barrington, South Chicago Heights, Spring Grove, Steger, Stickney, Stone Park, Sugar Grove, Symerton, Third Lake, Thornton, Tower Lakes, Trout Valley, Union, University Park, Venetian Village, Virgil, Volo, Wadsworth, Wauconda, Wayne, West Dundee, Willowbrook, DuPage County, Willowbrook, Will County, Willow Springs, Wilmington, Winfield, Winthrop Harbor, Wonder Lake, Yorkville.

Indiana

Beverly Shores, Burns Harbor, Cedar Lake, Dune Acres, Hebron, Kouts, Lake Dalecarlia, Lakes of the Four Seasons, Lowell, New Chicago, Ogden Dunes, Portage, Porter, Schneider, South Haven, St. John, Town of Pines, Whiting, Winfield.

Wisconsin

Brighton, Bristol, Camp Lake, Genoa City, Lake Shangrila, Paddock Lake, Paddock Lake, Paris, Powers Lake, Randall, Salem, Silver Lake, Somers, Twin Lakes, Wheatland.

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