Within Illinois, Cook County and its surrounding collar ... using population estimates based on survey data from the Census Bureau. Those new maps are now the subject of two federal lawsuits ...

Illinois redistricting: Democrats propose new maps for Illinois House ... said the drop in Springfield and Sangamon County’s population wasn’t as large as predicted based on 2019 population ...

(The Center Square) – The exodus from Illinois continues ... showed big declines relative to the size of their population. Cook County experienced the nation’s second-largest county ...

While the U.S. population returned to a pre-pandemic growth trajectory this year, Illinois was one of eight states to see its numbers decline, a new 2023 census report showed. Illinois lost 32,826 ...

The Chicago metropolitan area and Cook County both saw slight increases in population according to ... both nationally and in Illinois, according to provisional numbers, Percheski said.

CAIRO, Ill.—In a nation where more than half of all counties saw population declines during the past decade, nowhere fared worse than Alexander County in far southern Illinois. Located at the ...