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Census Records From 1950 Could Solve Some Family Mysteries
The first-ever publication of 1950 census records promises to solve some family mysteries for amateur genealogists and family historians
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Changes to US Census Being Considered After Minority Undercounts
Policymakers and demographers have been asking whether it’s time to rethink the census after results released last week that showed Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were undercounted in greater rates in 2020 than a decade ago
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Idaho Leads the Country in Population Growth
Idaho has led the country in population growth for the fifth year in a row.
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What the 2020 Census Data Means for Redistricting in Illinois
The Census Bureau on Thursday issued its most detailed portrait yet of how the U.S. has changed over the past decade and the data makes it likely that Illinois state lawmakers will redraw the maps they agreed to earlier this summer.
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Census Data Shows US Is Diversifying, White Population Shrinking
The Census Bureau has issued its most detailed portrait yet of how the U.S. has changed over the past decade
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Facing Census Delay, Group Withdraws Request for Records
A Republican advocacy group is withdrawing its request for a court order seeking the immediate release of Census Bureau records
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Watchdog: Trump Official Misled on Reason for Citizenship Question During Testimonies
A federal investigation has found that President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary misled Congress about why he sought to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census
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Gov. Pritzker Signs Illinois Redistricting Maps
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed newly-passed legislative district maps to govern elections in the Illinois General Assembly for the next decade despite opposition from Republicans and criticism from certain community groups who say they were ignored in the process.
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Illinois Lawmakers Hold Hearing on New Maps Proposed in Redistricting Process
Illinois lawmakers are scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday afternoon on the new proposed legislative maps that Democrats, who hold a majority of seats in both chambers, released last week as part of the redistricting process.
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Illinois Democrats Release Draft Legislative Maps in Redistricting Process
Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly released draft versions of the proposed legislative maps created in the redistricting process Friday evening.
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Why Redistricting in Illinois Matters
The Illinois legislature is currently working on redistricting the state, a process that’s completed just once every 10 years and has the power to shape the state’s politics for the next decade and beyond. What exactly is redistricting, how does the process work in Illinois and why does it matter?
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Census Shows Indiana Grows, Retains All 9 US House Seats
The U.S. Census Bureau says Indiana’s population grew about 5% during the past decade to nearly 6.8 million residents and the state held onto its nine U.S. House seats.
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What's Behind the Growth Slump? Takeaways From Census Data
The U.S. Census Bureau has released its first batch of data for its once-every-decade count.
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Puerto Rico's Population Fell 11.8% to 3.3 Million, Census Shows
Puerto Rico’s population fell 11.8 percent to 3.3 million over the past decade, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday.
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Illinois to Lose 1 Congressional Seat, Census Bureau Says, Releasing State Population Data
Illinois could lose at least one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as the Census Bureau is set to release on Monday its state population counts and more data from the 2020 Census.
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US Marks Slowest Population Growth Since the Depression
U.S. population growth has slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said Monday, as Americans continued their march to the South and West and one-time engines of growth, New York and California, lost political influence. Altogether, the U.S. population rose to 331,449,281 last year, the Census Bureau said, a 7.4% increase that was the second-slowest…
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Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of Trump's Census Plan
The Supreme Court sounds skeptical that President Donald Trump could categorically exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot seats among the states in the House of Representatives
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Appellate Judges Let 2020 Census Continue Through October
A panel of three appellate judges has upheld a lower court order allowing the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident to continue through October.
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Census Worker Says South Suburban Office Has Seen ‘No Change' Since Coronavirus Case
A U.S. Census field supervisor claims a case of coronavirus at her office in south suburban Matteson went unmentioned, saying it’s “basically been covered up.” Kayla Hogan told NBC 5 she believes employees coming and going to neighborhoods from the office building put her and others at increased risk. “I have an 83-year-old mother who has underlying conditions,” she...
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Census to Stop Counting Americans a Month Early Amid Growing Fears of an Undercount
The Census Bureau is halting its field operations to count the population a month ahead of schedule, the agency’s director announced in a statement Monday night, raising fears of a national undercount.