The CCP antibody test helps to diagnose RA and can be useful in identifying people with a more rapidly erosive form of the disease. RA is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation, pain, stiffness, and destructive changes in the hands, feet, and other joints throughout the body.
As you can see from the map above, most of the Illinois population is based in the North East of the state. Chicago, home to 2,695,598 people, remains the largest city in Illinois. It dwarfs the state's other cities â the next largest is Aurora, with 197,899 people.
The Chicago MSA, now defined as the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the third largest MSA by population in the United States. The 2015 census estimate for the MSA was 9,532,569, a decline from 9,543,893 in the 2014 census estimate.