US Census

A Republican advocacy group is withdrawing its request for a court order seeking the immediate release of Census Bureau records

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

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.

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.

Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly released draft versions of the proposed legislative maps created in the redistricting process Friday evening.

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?

The U.S. Census Bureau has released its first batch of data for its once-every-decade count.

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.

Puerto Rico’s population fell 11.8 percent to 3.3 million over the past decade, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday.

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…

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham testified that he wasn’t informed ahead of time about President Donald Trump’s order seeking to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the process of redrawing congressional districts.

NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain goes deeper into the history of the U.S. Census and what it means for the populations that get overlooked during the nationwide count every 10 years.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has called on the U.S. Census Bureau to postpone the 2020 census, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot addressed Chicago residents after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a statewide stay-at-home order to stop the spread of coronavirus.