Chicagoland has most local governments of all U.S. metro areas

The Chicago metropolitan area is the nation’s most governmentally fragmented, with more local governments — 1,550 — relative to population and land area than any other, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In a report published in the May edition of the Urban Affairs Review, the researchers introduced a “fragmentation index” comparing 51 U.S. metro regions of at least one million residents. The index is intended as a tool for further research, the report’s authors said…Please click here to read Anne Brooks Ranallo’s blog post on the UIC News Center web site.