An estimated 68,440 people were unhoused in Chicago in 2021 with a sharp jump in the number of people staying on the street or in shelters, according to a new report released Thursday by the Chicago ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, Chicago-area residents headed toward the exits in the year ended last July, with the metropolitan area losing nearly 110,000 residents, according to new population ...

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Greater Chicago lost more than 91,000 people from 2020 to 2021 as the pandemic slowed growth in the nation’s biggest cities and intensified population trends of migration to the South and West, ...

(The Center Square) – Annual Census estimates released Thursday show Illinois’ largest cities continuing to lose population. Gov. J.B. Pritzker again denied the federal data. When asked why he thinks ...

Dayna Lynn Nuckolls spent most of her life in Chicago and the south suburbs but was already planning to leave when COVID-19 struck. She was fed up with the winters and conflicts in Chicago Public ...