Chicago, Illinois

Chicago population, 2020 to 2024

Chicago lost 23,888 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +22,164. Among 330 Illinois places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 166th; the median place changed by -0.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in Illinois has 14,760 people, so Chicago is 184.4 times that size.

Chicago covers 227.75 square miles of land and 6.79 of water, for 11,949 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Chicago is denser than the typical town.

What county Chicago is in

All of Chicago's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,182,617 residents in 2024. Chicago holds 52.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chicago

60 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Chicago by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 60018, 60106, 60601, 60602, 60603, 60604, 60605, 60606, 60607, 60608, 60609, 60610, 60611, 60612, 60613, 60614, 60615, 60616, 60617, 60618, 60619, 60620, 60621, 60622, 60623, 60624, 60625, 60626, 60628, 60629, 60630, 60631, 60632, 60633, 60634, 60636, 60637, 60638, 60639, 60640, 60641, 60642, 60643, 60644, 60645, 60646, 60647, 60649, 60651, 60652, 60653, 60654, 60655, 60656, 60657, 60659, 60660, 60661, 60707, 60827. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Chicago is

The Census internal point of Chicago is at 41.837000, -87.684900. Springfield, the capital, is 175.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New York, NY (8,478,072 people), 717.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Naperville, IL, 25.3 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 178 m (584 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Chicago

At 41.84° N, Chicago gets about 15 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Chicago daylight page.

Places near Chicago

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Cicero, 3.9 miles away, with 82,090 people.