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Aurora

city on tripoints of DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will Counties in Illinois, United States
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Summary

Aurora is a big city[1]. Aurora draws 3,515 Wikipedia views per month (big city category, ranking #122 of 300).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: DuPage County[3], Kane County[4], Kendall County[5], Will County[6]
  • Country: United States[7]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Fox River[8]
  • Head of government: Richard C. Irvin[9]
  • Instance of: city of Illinois[10]
  • Postal code: 60502[11], 60503[12], 60504[13], 60505[14], 60506[15], 60507[16], 60568[17], 60569[18], 60572[19], 60598[20], 60599[21]
  • Commons category: Aurora, Illinois[22]
  • Inception: 1835[23]
  • Coordinate location: 41.76, -88.298611111111[24]
  • Official website: https://www.aurora-il.org[25]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Aurora, Illinois[26]
  • Population: 171,782[27], 197,899[28], 180,542[29]
  • Office held by head of government: Mayor of Aurora, Illinois[30]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[31], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[32], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[33], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[34], The American Cyclopædia[35], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[36], New International Encyclopedia[37], The New Student's Reference Work[38], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[39]
  • Official name: Aurora[40]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Born in Aurora, Illinois[41]
  • Category for people who died here: Q125561372[42]
  • Number of households: 65,128[43]
  • Native label: Aurora[44]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Aurora, Illinois[45]
  • Different from: Aurora[46]
  • Elevation above sea level: 220[47]
  • Area: 118.551888[48], 118.607475[49]
  • Water as percent of area: 1.8748[50]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Aurora include Aurora Township[51], a township of Minnesota[52], in United States[53].

Why It Matters

Aurora has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] Aurora is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]

Entities named for Aurora include Aurora Township[51], a township of Minnesota[52], in United States[53].

Related Entities

Aurora University Clive Cussler Dennis Hastert Martha E. Sloan Natacha Atlas Paul Scheuring United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Ranveig · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Population: 180,542"
  2. 22w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for people born here → Category:Born in Aurora, Illinois
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → DuPage County, Kane County, Kendall County +1
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Aurora, Illinois
    Population → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||be, ckb, fi, simple, br */ Add 5 multilingual descriptions extracted from Wikipedia article first sentences (universal multilingual maintenance — Q-walker v2."
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