Editing Illinois (section)

==== Asian-Americans ====
The third largest minority group in Illinois are Asian-Americans. In 2023, 894,048 Illinoisans identified as being Asian alone or in combination, making up 7.1% of the state's population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B02011 - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B02011&geo_ids=04000US17&primary_geo_id=04000US17 |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref> 756,661 identified as Asian alone, making up 6.0% of the population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B02001 - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B02001&geo_ids=04000US17&primary_geo_id=04000US17 |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref> The state's Asian-American population has grown rapidly in recent decades, from only 2.5% of the total population in 1990, to over 7% in 2023. 

Around 37% of the state's Asian population is of [[South Asia|South Asian]] origin, 31% are [[East Asia|East Asian,]] 29% are [[Southeast Asia|Southeast Asian]] (Mostly Filipino), 1% are [[Central Asia|Central Asian]], and 2% are of 'unspecified' Asian origins.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B02018 - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B02018&geo_ids=04000US17&primary_geo_id=04000US17 |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref> The largest specific Asian groups in the state are Indian (277,961), Filipino (184,508), Chinese (160,880), Korean (67,452), and Pakistani (50,508).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B02018 - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B02018&geo_ids=04000US17&primary_geo_id=04000US17#valueType%7Cestimate |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref> Around 85% of the state's Asian-American population identifies as Asian alone, while 15% identify as multiracial. Illinoisans of South Asian ancestry are significantly less likely than other Asian-Americans in the state to report multiracial ancestry, with 94% of Indian-Americans and 90% of Pakistani-Americans in the state identifying as Asian alone, compared to 82% of Chinese-American residents, 73% of Filipino-American residents, and only 44% of the state's 33,000 Japanese-American residents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B02015 - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B02015&geo_ids=04000US17&primary_geo_id=04000US17#valueType%7Cestimate |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B02018 - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B02018&geo_ids=04000US17&primary_geo_id=04000US17#valueType%7Cestimate |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref> 

The overwhelming majority of the state's Asian population resides in the [[Chicago metropolitan area]], mostly in suburban areas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B02011 - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B02011&geo_ids=31000US16980&primary_geo_id=31000US16980 |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref> Suburban [[DuPage County, Illinois|DuPage County]] has the highest share of Asian residents in the state, at 14.7%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B02011 - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B02011&geo_ids=05000US17043&primary_geo_id=05000US17043 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref> While Asians aren't the majority in any municipality within Illinois, they make up a significant share of the population (between 20 and 40%) in multiple western and northern suburbs of Chicago, including [[Naperville, Illinois|Naperville]], [[Schaumburg, Illinois|Schaumburg]], [[Hoffman Estates, Illinois|Hoffman Estates]], [[Skokie, Illinois|Skokie]], [[Niles, Illinois|Niles]], and [[Morton Grove, Illinois|Morton Grove]]. Additionally, the Chicago [[Community areas in Chicago|community area]] of Armour Square, which includes the city's [[Chinatown, Chicago|Chinatown]] neighborhood, is majority Asian at 63.7% of the population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Community Data Snapshot- Armour Square |url=https://www.cmap.illinois.gov/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/Armour-Square.pdf |website=Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning}}</ref> Asian residents have the highest per-capita income of any major ethnic or racial group in the state, at $54,122, and the second lowest poverty rate, after non-Hispanic whites, at 10.4%.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" /> The median age of Asian residents in Illinois is 38.9 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grid View: Table B01002D - Census Reporter |url=https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B01002D&geo_ids=04000US17&primary_geo_id=04000US17 |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=censusreporter.org}}</ref>