Chicago: City on the Grow!

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Mar 19, 2009 7:00PM

Feel like there are just more people walking and driving around the Chicagoland area? That's because there are. Census data shows from July 2007 to July 2008, the Chicago area increased by 73,000 people. Kendall County was fourth among the nation's fastest-growing counties. With 5,294,664 people, Cook County is the nation's second-largest county. Overall, the Chicagoland area, which the Census considers the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet triangle, is approaching a population of 10 million with 9,569,624 men, women, and children milling about, good enough for third in the nation behind NYC and L.A. [ABC 7, WBBM]