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Elgin, Illinois

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The city of Elgin is primarily located in Cook County. A portion of Elgin extends into Kane County.

Elgin is 240 feet [73.15 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Elgin lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Elgin can be found in:

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At the time of the 2000 Census, Elgin had a population of 94,487 people<3> (or 1.76% of the total population of Cook County). The population of Elgin represented 0.76% of the total of Illinois, making it the state's 8th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Elgin had a population of 106,330 people. This is an increase of 12.53% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Elgin.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
2008106,330+12.53%+2.6% since 2007
2007103,635+9.68%+3.06% since 2006
2006100,556+6.42%+2.86% since 2005
200597,758+3.46% 
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200094,487The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Arlington Heights   E17 mi [27.36 km]73,3993.46% decrease
 Aurora   S19 mi [30.58 km]171,78220.14% increase
 Carol Stream   SE12 mi [19.31 km]40,0041.07% decrease
 Hanover Park   E9 mi [14.48 km]36,7773.92% decrease
 Hoffman Estates   E9 mi [14.48 km]53,6418.38% increase
 Lombard   SE19 mi [30.58 km]42,8901.34% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Elgin.

Websites for Elgin

Official Website:   www.cityofelgin.org/
   
Chamber of Commerce:   www.elginchamber.com/
Junior League:   www.jlkd.org/

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Elgin or Cook County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.




Search for Local Businesses

People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Elgin. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Elgin:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Elgin? Please visit the Map Page for Elgin.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Elgin - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Elgin, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Elgin.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Elgin and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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