The 284 municipalities (also referred to as "incorporated places" in Census Bureau terminology) that are at least partially within the 7-county Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) region. From the US Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles, 2023 vintage.
municipality_sfFormat
A multipolygon sf object with 284 rows and
4 variables:
- geoid_place
Unique 7-digit place/municipality ID, assigned by the Census Bureau. Character.
- municipality
Municipality name. Character.
- sqmi
Area in square miles. Double.
- geometry
Feature geometry.
sfmultipolygon.
Source
US Census Bureau TIGER/Line
Details
Census Bureau description:
"Incorporated Places are those reported to the Census Bureau as legally in existence as of January 1, as reported in the latest Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS), under the laws of their respective states. An incorporated place is established to provide governmental functions for a concentration of people as opposed to a minor civil division (MCD), which generally is created to provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population. Places always are within a single state or equivalent entity, but may extend across county and county subdivision boundaries. An incorporated place usually is a city, town, village, or borough, but can have other legal descriptions."
Examples
# Display the municipalities with ggplot2
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(municipality_sf) + geom_sf(lwd = 0.1) + theme_void()
