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Will County, Illinois
Will County is a county in northeastern Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 677,560, an increase of 34.9% from 502,266 in 2000, making it the fourth most populous county in Illinois. The provincial capital is Joliet.
Will County is one of the five districts of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metropolitan Statistical Area, IL-IN-WI. The portion of Will County around Joliet uses area codes 815 and 779, 630 and 331 are for the far north of Will County and 708 is for eastern Will County.
Chicago metropolitan area
The Chicago Metropolitan Area, also known as Chicagoland, is an urban area in the US that includes the US Census Bureau Metropolitan Statistical Area (Population 9.4 million) or the Combined Statistical Area (CSA) a little bigger. The CSA includes the city of Chicago and its suburbs, which encompasses 14 counties in the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, and is estimated to have a population of 9.83 million people in 2019. The Chicago area is the third largest area largest metropolitan area in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
The Chicago metropolitan area has one of the largest and most diversified economies in the world, with more than six million full-time and part-time employees, generating an annual gross regional product (GRP) of $ 689 billion in 2018. The region is home to more than 400 corporate headquarters, including 31 on the Fortune 500. For six consecutive years, Chicagoland was ranked as the top metropolitan region in the country for corporate relocations. The Chicago area is home to some of the top universities in the country, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, and Loyola University.
There are several definitions of the area, including those defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the slightly larger Combined Statistical Area , and area under the jurisdiction of the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Agency (CMAP) (a metropolitan planning organization in Illinois).