Chino is a city in San Bernardino County, located in the western end of the Riverside-San Bernardino County Area and easily accessible via the Chino Valley (71) and Pomona (60) freeways. Chino is currently home to around 81,000 people.

The city and its surroundings have long been a hub for agriculture and dairy farming, serving the major need for milk products in Southern California and much of the southwestern United States. The land grant on which Chino was founded was once called Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, and the exact meaning of Chino has been debated with varying theories. One such theory is that Chino , which means curly-haired person or mixed-race person, was the chief of the former local Native American Village.

Downtown Chino is home to the Chaffey Community College, the Chino Community Theatre and Chino Boxing Club, as well as a weekly Farmer's Market. The city takes well care of is children and adolescents, and in 2008 Chino was awarded the prestigious 100 Best Communities for Youth for the second time.

Thanks to its bucolic surroundings and rural setting, Chino was long a popular site for Hollywood production teams shooting mid-western settings. Numerous movies were shot here in the 1960s, including Bus Riley's Back in Town and The Stripper, as well as the TV-series Twelve O'Clock High.

Attractions in the area include Planes of Fame and Yanks Air Museum, two air museums that are both located at Chino Airport.