Emanuel mounting challenge to census showing dip of 200K Chicago residents

Emanuel mounting challenge to census showing dip of 200K Chicago residents


By John Byrne
Tribune Reporter
8:35 PM CST, February 18, 2012


Mayor Rahm Emanuel is mounting a challenge to 2010 U.S. Census estimates that Chicago lost about 200,000 residents.

Big city mayors regularly contest the once-a-decade census results, which determine how much federal funding flows to different parts of the country. Chicago would gain about $1,200 annually for the next decade for each person added to the official population, according to Emanuel’s office.

Emanuel’s predecessor, Mayor Richard Daley, launched an unsuccessful bid to get Chicago’s 2000 population numbers increased. In 1990, Daley and other mayors tried futilely to get Congress to give them additional time to fight the census results.

The 2010 census estimated Chicago lost about 181,000 African-Americans and about 53,000 whites. Meanwhile, the Latino population grew by about 25,000 and the Asian population went up more than 20,000. Overall, the city’s estimated poulation in 2010 was 2,695,598.

City workers used estimates of the occupancy rates of housing units in particular neighborhoods to come up with areas they believe the census numbers were low, according to a news release from the Emanuel administration.

Among the areas where the administration believes census workers missed the most Chicagoans are the North Side’s 32nd Ward, which stretches from the Ukrainian Village north to Roscoe Village. Also the 6th and 8th wards, which border each other on the South Side and include parts of the Chatham, Burnside, Calumet Heights and Park Manor neighborhoods.

The administration estimates the census missed as many as 2,350 Chicagoans, who, if counted, would bring in an extra $2.8 million per year in federal funding.

If the census bureau does make any changes to its estimated 2010 Chicago population the additions will come too late to have any impact on the political fallout of the count.
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Illinois lost one seat in theU.S. House of Representativesbecause of the census numbers, and efforts to redraw state legislative districts and Chicago’s 50 wards based on the new totals have already taken place.

New York, Houston, Miami and Detroit are among the other cities challenging the 2010 results.

jebyrne@tribune.com

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Editor's note: With corrupt institutions such as the Probate Court of Cook County fleecing citizens, it is no wonder why thousands of  residents are fleeing Chicago.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

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