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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 a new grocery
store or more state funding
to build roads, fire stations
and parks.
Eleven small cities in Illinois
and Iowa are the only mu-
nicipalities so far to have
signed agreements with
the U.S. Census Bureau for
a second count of their res-
idents in 2024 and 2025, in a
repeat of what happened
during the 2020 census. The
first year in which the spe-
cial censuses can be con-
ducted is 2024.
With one exception, city
officials don’t think the
numbers from the original
count were inaccurate. It’s
just that their populations
have grown so fast in three
years that officials believe
they are leaving state
funding for roads and oth-
er items on the table by not
adding the extra growth to
their population totals.
The briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla.
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