The total population of Illinois
in 2003 was approximately 12,653,544. This is quite impressing since
the population was more than people expected. This is also impressing
because it has more population than Bolivia. If this number is true
then Illinois has 4 million more people than Bolivia. The population is
this big because of its five main counties, Cook, Du Page, Lake, Will
and Kane all of these contain at least a million each. Then they are
big in population because they have the major cities inside them,
Chicago, Rockford, Aurora, Peoria and Springfield(the capital). In 2000
the population was of about 12,419,293 which was an increase since 1990
of about 988,691. In the census of 2000 there was an estimate of about
1,529,058 foreign born residents. This made up 12 percent of the
state's population. Compared to Bolivia this is kind of big. There was
also an estimate of 2,477,000 in Illinois that were immigrant stock.
That means that children in those families were born after their
arrival in Illinois.
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