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Nearly ten million people live in what the U.S. Census Bureau defines as the Chicago-Gary-Kenosha Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area. Within that wide spread along southwestern Lake Michigan, an impressive range of cultures, customs, systems of exchange, and commercial venues subsist, some quite comfortably. To understand Chicagoland, one must not only understand the character of its people in some detail, but also explore its vivid habitat of natural and built environments and the significance of the many dialogues among them and between them.

WildOnions.org's Chicago Resource aims to be the ideal companion to such an undertaking. Chock-full of detailed regional analysis, carefully compiled and sifted demographic data, sharp photographic illustrations, and personal accounts of the cultural topography, our resource pages are the first and best summary you'll need at every stage of your investigation and celebration of Chicago and its people. However much you already know or hope to learn about Chicago, WildOnions.org is always a great place to start


Chicago Basics at a Glance (2000)
 The Chicago-Gary-Kenosha Metropolitan Area

Chicago Region Population: 9,157,540
Chicago Region Land Area: 6,927 Square Miles
Chicago Longitude: 41 North
Chicago Latitude: 87 West


Chicago Region Cultural Demographics

White/European (Not Hispanic): 59.33%
African American/African (Not Hispanic): 18.34%
Hispanic: 16.36%
Asian (Not Hispanic): 4.22%
Native American/Indigenous (Not Hispanic): 0.14%

Chicago Region Per Capita Income in 1999: $24,581
Chicago Region Median Household Income in 1999: $51,046
Chicago Region Median Home Value: $159,000
Chicago Region Median Residential Rent Asked: $560/year
Chicago Region Housing Stock, Median Construction Date: 1962

Most Common Ancestries in the Chicago Region
Northern European (~30%)
>German (13%)
>Irish (9%)
>English (3%)
>Swedish (2%)
>Norwegian (1%)
>Dutch (1%)
African or African-American (18%)
Hispanic (16%)
Polish (9%)
Italian (7%)
Asian (4%)
United States/American (3%)
Russian (1%)
Greek (1%)

Languages Most Commonly Spoken in the Chicago Region
English (75%)
Spanish (14%)
Polish (2%)
Tagalog (1%)
Chinese (1%)
Italian (1%)
German (1%)
Greek (Less than 1%)


Source: US Census 2000


Images: Great Hall, Union Station.
Photograph by Alex Wedemeyer
Sony Cybershot S85, Spring 2003





Original text and images ©2002-2005, AEW/WildOnions.org

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