Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot announced a $2.7 million investment in the City’s 2020 census efforts for an all-hands-on deck outreach strategy to ensure that every Chicagoan is counted. With nearly half of Chicago’s 2.7 million residents considered “hard-to-count” by the U.S. Census Bureau, this year’s outreach method will be even more important than in years past and for achieving a complete, full count that accurately reflects the City’s electoral representation and federal funding needs. The City’s census investment will be used to cast a wide net and to fund strategies for connecting with residents in the hardest to reach communities. If its residents are not accurately reflected in the census count, the City of Chicago stands to lose $1,400 per person missed in 2020, or $14,000 in critical federal funds over the next decade.  The census is also used for redistricting at all levels of government and to inform local policymaking. Also, this funding includes a mix of federal and local grant funds, including Medicaid, Head Start, SNAP, Section 8, Title I, and Special Education Grants. To help provide residents more real-time information about the 2020 census, the City also created a new website – census2020.chicago.gov.