Emanuel mounting challenge to census showing dip of 200K Chicago residents
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.
Jaw dropping time. “Encouraging” Southside blacks to leave Chicago proper and migrate to South Suburban Cook has been de facto Chicagoland policy for quite a few years. And when it happens? Rahm starts bitching about fewer people.
Maybe Rahm could take the Eric Massa tack to reverse this, though I doubt he would be thrilled about being naked in the same shower as some G-Unit pimp mack daddy ‘banga with the GDs.
Maybe Rahm …. would be thrilled about being naked in the same shower as some G-Unit pimp mack daddy ‘banga with the GDs.
It’s fixed now.
He, Alexi Giannoulious, Arne Dunkin, Jean-Claude Brizard, and Obama would all be on their knees. And I suspect our Gov too.