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Originally Posted by forumly_chgoman
someone should do a census analysis on this & see what the population would be if this was indeed the case
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Ah, the joys of procrastinating work at the start of the day....
Counting only Illinois, a 100 mile Chicago would run from Rockford to LaSalle Peru to Kankakee.
It would wholy or substantially encompass the following counties: Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, McHenry, Ogle, Putnam, Winnebago, Will.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/illinois_map.html
The 2006 population breakdown is as follows:
Cook: 5,303,683
5 collar counties: 3,060,711
Everything else: 1,006,315
Grand total: 9,370,709