People cross North Michigan Avenue at East Randolph Street on May 13, 2025, in Chicago. Chicago's population grew by about 22,000 people from mid-2023 to mid-2024, according to census data.

People cross North Michigan Avenue at East Randolph Street on May 13, 2025, in Chicago. Chicago's population grew by about 22,000 people from mid-2023 to mid-2024, according to census data.

In Chicago’s south and southwest suburbs the largest population growth over that span between July 2020 and the estimate as of July 2024 was in New Lenox, with a 4.7% gain, followed by Frankfort ...

Houston has been just behind Chicago in population numbers for several years and continues to grow in size. In 2015, experts predicted Houston could overtake Chicago as the third-largest city by ...

Good morning, Chicago. Chicago posted the seventh biggest population gain of any city in the country last year, leading a wave of growth that also lifted many suburbs, particularly those on the ...

Chicago’s population grew by more than 22,000 in 2024, reversing years of decline and putting the city among the top 10 for growth, new Census data shows.

That population growth works out to a percentage gain of only 0.8%, but it marks the second year in a row that Chicago’s population grew, reversing a downward trend in previous years.

At one point, before the Great Recession, a noted Chicago regional planning organization projected southwest suburban New Lenox would have a population of 100,000 by 2030. While not that many ...

That left the Windy City with a population of 2,664,452 in 2023, which is Chicago's smallest population since before the 1920 Census, when it had 2,701,705 residents.