Several Midwestern cities are going to be counted again like it’s 2020
By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press
Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in hopes of getting more state funding. Eleven municipalities in Illinois and Iowa are the only cities in the U.S. so far to have signed agreements with the U.S. Census Bureau to recount their residents in 2024 and 2025 in a repeat of what happened during the 2020 census. The first year in which the special censuses can be conducted is 2024. The cities’ populations have grown so fast in three years that they are leaving state funding on the table by not including the extra growth.
