Cook County, Illinois
Cook County is a
county located in the
U.S. state of
Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 5,376,741, making it the
second largest county by population in the
United States (after
Los Angeles County, California), and accounting for 43.3% of the state's population (if Cook County were an independent state, it would have the 21st largest population). The
county seat is
Chicago, the principal city of
its metropolitan area; Chicago makes up about 54% of the population of the county, the rest being provided by various
suburbs. Cook County is the 19th largest government in the United States. Cook County has by far more
Democratic Party members than any other
Illinois county, and is one of the most Democratic counties in the United States. It has only voted once for a
Republican candidate in a Presidential election in the last forty years, in
1972, when county voters preferred
Richard Nixon to
George McGovern by 53.4% to 46%.
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