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North Chicago is a city in Lake County on the shore of Lake Michigan, about 35 miles north of downtown Chicago.

North Chicago grew up around a wire-manufacturing plant established in the early 1890s and was incorporated as a city in 1909.

The 2020 census counted 30,759 people in North Chicago, making it the third-most populous city in Lake County after Waukegan and Mundelein.

North Chicago has about 6,800 households and 4,400 families, with much of its population tied to the military community at its naval base.

North Chicago is home to Naval Station Great Lakes, established in 1911, the U.S. Navy's only boot camp, where every enlisted sailor begins basic training.

Roughly 40,000 Navy recruits pass through basic training at Great Lakes each year.

North Chicago is home to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, which houses the Chicago Medical School.

The city is a center of pharmaceutical research and production, with healthcare giants Abbott and AbbVie among the major employers in and around North Chicago.

A 1937 sit-down strike at a North Chicago metal plant led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1939 ruling in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation, which declared sit-down strikes illegal.

North Chicago is home to the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, the nation's first fully integrated Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense medical facility.