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| | Chicagoland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | There is no precise definition for the term "Chicagoland"; a common usage includes the city of Chicago, Cook County and the nine surrounding counties in the state of Illinois, five in Indiana, and one in Wisconsin. |
 | | The metro area comprises nine Illinois counties (Cook, DuPage, Lake, Will, Kane, McHenry, Kankakee, Kendall, and Grundy), the five Northwest Indiana counties (Lake, Porter, Jasper, Newton, and LaPorte), and one Wisconsin county (Kenosha County). |
 | | The addition of Kankakee County, Illinois and LaPorte County, Indiana to the metropolitan area forms the census designated Combined Statistical Area named Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI which has a July 1, 2005 population estimate of 9,661,840. |
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