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Chicago, IL (population: 2,878,948) has thirteen registered nurse schools within its city limits. Loyola University Chicago, the highest ranked school in the city with a registered nurse program, has a total student population of 15,879. It is the 144th highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Illinois (#1 is Northwestern University).

Registered Nurse students from Chicago schools who go on to become registered nuclear medicine technologists, nurses, radiologists, radiology technicians, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 2,583,770 people working as registered nurses alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $66,530. Also, Nuclear medicine technologists make on average $68,450 per year and there are about 21,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area alone, there are 370 employed nuclear medicine technologists earning an average salary of $71,620. Registered nurses in this area earn $69,370/yr and there are 74,720 employed.

Chicago lies in Cook county, which is one of the 49 counties in Illinois. Overall, the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet Metropolitan area has 3,669,800 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,910 average annual salary. Thus, about 20 out of every 1000 jobs in Chicago are held by registered nurses, and 0/1000 are held by nuclear medicine technologists.

Of the 13 registered nurse schools in Chicago, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Loyola University Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($27,955/yr) for registered nurse students, with City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College as the lowest, reported at only $6,148/yr.

Name	State	Population	# of Schools	Avg School Rank	Total Programs	Distance from Chicago
Berwyn	IL	49,477	1	23.6937	4	5.7 miles
Oak Park	IL	49,270	1	1.32863	0	6.6 miles
River Forest	IL	-	2	45.0836	173	8.0 miles
River Grove	IL	-	1	11.7006	67	10.0 miles
Blue Island	IL	-	2	31.6013	8	12.6 miles
Palos Heights	IL	-	1	26.9291	61	13.3 miles
Skokie	IL	66,692	6	22.9614	40	14.2 miles
Evanston	IL	78,672	5	24.133	202	14.5 miles
Villa Park	IL	-	2	31.4324	7	16.3 miles
Oak Forest	IL	-	1	38.4537	3	16.7 miles
South Holland	IL	-	1	10.1002	61	17.0 miles
Addison	IL	-	1	11.9746	2	17.1 miles
Lombard	IL	43,240	3	11.1886	2	17.1 miles
Des Plaines	IL	57,512	1	11.0092	69	17.3 miles
Calumet City	IL	-	1	19.3758	27	17.4 miles
Downers Grove	IL	49,475	1	0.403237	10	17.7 miles
Glenview	IL	46,461	0	-	0	18.1 miles
Hammond	IN	75,871	5	27.9021	191	18.1 miles
Orland Park	IL	55,957	1	26.0399	11	18.2 miles
Tinley Park	IL	60,149	0	-	0	19.7 miles
Glen Ellyn	IL	-	1	13.8242	100	20.1 miles
Woodridge	IL	-	1	16.3637	24	20.2 miles
Lisle	IL	-	2	24.7595	107	20.5 miles
Mount Prospect	IL	52,994	2	36.9644	21	20.8 miles
Glendale Heights	IL	-	1	27.7281	3	21.3 miles
Bolingbrook	IL	72,318	0	-	0	22.8 miles
Arlington Heights	IL	73,268	1	24.4091	3	23.2 miles
Chicago Heights	IL	-	1	9.7858	55	23.2 miles
Carol Stream	IL	40,639	0	-	0	23.8 miles
Gary	IN	94,891	2	28.0598	98	24.2 miles

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